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Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the exploration of the red planet by Steven W Squyres is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the exploration of the red planet about?

ROVING MARS is a riveting first-person account of the Mars Exploration Mission from beginning to end from the scientist behind it all. The book covers the journey of rovers Spirit and Opportunity to Mars, and their successful landing on the planet’s surface. Scientists will have the first in-depth study of our closest planet through the use of sophisticated on-board cameras and scientific instruments. They will spend months operating on the surface of the planet, collecting data and transmitting images back to Earth. "For much of the last several centuries, exploration has been one of humanity’s most important pursuits. Bust most of what we call ‘exploration’ today is not. There are adventurers who find some new way to cover old ground, and there are researchers who go to familiar places like Antarctica or low Earth orbit to carry out their work. Even the most successful NASA spacecraft, like the Hubble Space Telescope and the various Mars orbiters, are more like remote observation outposts than they are robotic explorers. This mission, however, will be exploration in the true sense—sending robotic surrogates for human explorers into an unknown environment on a voyage of scientific

Who reads Roving Mars : Spirit, Opportunity, and the exploration of the red planet?

Author

Steven W Squyres

Publisher

Hyperion : Turnaround [distributor

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781401301491

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Mathematics, Astronomy

Rating

4.33 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14