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The design and engineering of Curiosity = how the Mars Rover performs its job /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The design and engineering of Curiosity/ by Emily Lakdawalla.
其他題名:	how the Mars Rover performs its job /
作者:	Lakdawalla, Emily.
出版者:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
面頁冊數:	xiv, 394 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
標題:	Space vehicles - Design and construction. -
標題:	Mars (Planet) -
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68146-7
ISBN:	9783319681467

The design and engineering of Curiosity = how the Mars Rover performs its job /
Lakdawalla, Emily.

The design and engineering of Curiosityhow the Mars Rover performs its job /[electronic resource] :by Emily Lakdawalla. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xiv, 394 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer praxis books. - Springer praxis books..

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783319681467

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-68146-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

678958
Space vehicles
--Design and construction.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

682194
Mars (Planet)

LC Class. No.: TL875 / .L353 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 629.47

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