Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission

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Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission

With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken.Â Mars Up Close combines inside stories, fascinating facts, up-to-date maps, accessible science, eye-popping pictures, and visions of a future not that far away thanks to the groundbreaking success of NASA's Curiosity mission. Renowned science journalist Marc Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multitasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. For pop science, space, and technology lovers, Mars Up Close takes you inside the mission and onto the surface of Mars. As an added special feature, this book contains embedded Augmented Reality coding: Download NASA's free app and bring the Curiosity rover and other Mars spacecraft into 3-D reality right on its pages!
Country USA
Brand National Geographic
Manufacturer National Geographic
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781426212789
Model 9781426212789
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2014-08-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781426212789

Country	USA
Brand	National Geographic
Manufacturer	National Geographic
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781426212789
Model	9781426212789
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2014-08-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781426212789

Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission

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