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The design and engineering of Curiosity : how the Mars rover performs its job
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.
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Similarities and differences in the landing sites of ESA’s and NASA’s 2020 Mars rovers
Both NASA and ESA hope their next Mars rovers will find evidence that life once thrived on Mars, but they have different strategies to reach this goal. Their landing site choices reflect this difference.
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Rockets : defying gravity
\"Meet the visionary physicists, chemists, engineers, and entertainers (as well as mice, bears, tortoises, and more) who took rockets from illuminations in the sky to the most powerful vehicles ever known. You'll also find out how using a gyroscope, swinging on a swing set, and spraying water from a garden hose are the keys to understanding space travel\"--Back cover.
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Drilling with Curiosity
Lakdawalla cites that on landing day, August 6, 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory rover (named Curiosity in a public contest of US students in 2009) became the most complex mission ever launched beyond Earth. But its development required a gargantuan effort spanning more than a decade. Its success depended on the invention of new technologies. Challenges in the development program forced NASA to delay the launch, at great financial cost. Originally proposed for the 2007 launch opportunity, it finally departed for Mars in November 2011. Curiosity began in the wreckage of NASA's Mars hopes. That Curiosity is still operating on Mars more than 5 years after landing is testament to the dedication and focus of a huge human team that keeps it safe and productive. Many of the people who were key to development are now working on the mission's descendant, currently known as Mars 2020, which will reuse the designs of the cruise stage and entry, descent, and landing architecture to deliver a Curiosity-like rover (though with a different science package) to collect samples on Mars for a hypothetical future sample return mission.
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