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Title
The design and engineering of Curiosity : how the Mars Rover performs its job / Emily Lakdawalla.
ISBN
9783319681467 (electronic book)
331968146X (electronic book)
9783319681443
3319681443
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-319-68146-7 doi
Call Number
TL875
Dewey Decimal Classification
629.47
Summary
This book describes the most complex machine ever sent to another planet: Curiosity. It is a one-ton robot with two brains, seventeen cameras, six wheels, nuclear power, and a laser beam on its head. No one human understands how all of its systems and instruments work. This essential reference to the Curiosity mission explains the engineering behind every system on the rover, from its rocket-powered jetpack to its radioisotope thermoelectric generator to its fiendishly complex sample handling system. Its lavishly illustrated text explains how all the instruments work -- its cameras, spectrometers, sample-cooking oven, and weather station -- and describes the instruments' abilities and limitations. It tells you how the systems have functioned on Mars, and how scientists and engineers have worked around problems developed on a faraway planet: holey wheels and broken focus lasers. And it explains the grueling mission operations schedule that keeps the rover working day in and day out.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 4, 2018).
Series
Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 3319681443
Dedication
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Mars Science Laboratory
Chapter 2: Getting to Mars
Chapter 3: Mars Operations
Chapter 4: How the Rover Works
Chapter 5: SA/SPaH: Acquisition, Processing, and Handling
Chapter 6: The Mast, Engineering Cameras, Navigation, and Hazard Avoidance
Chapter 7: Curiosity's Science Cameras
Chapter 8: Curiosity's Environmental Sensing Instruments
Chapter 9: Curiosity's Chemistry Instruments
Epilogue: Back on Earth
Appendix
About the Author
Index.
