Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet

Steve Squyres

Hyperion, Aug 3, 2005 - Science - 422 pages

Steve Squyres is the face and voice of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Squyres dreamed up the mission in 1987, saw it through from conception in 1995 to a successful landing in 2004, and serves as the principal scientist of its $400 million payload. He has gained a rare inside look at what it took for rovers Spirit and Opportunity to land on the red planet in January 2004-and knows firsthand their findings.

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Review: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet

User Review  - Traummachine - Goodreads

I'm a bit of an astronomy geek. I don't own a telescope, and I somehow missed the fact that there was just an eclipse(!), so...okay, maybe not that big a geek. Still, my favorite part of my last ...

Review: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet

User Review  - Bob Gustafson - Goodreads

I felt like I was right next to Squyres as he made decisions, looked at data, asked questions, celebrated, and then made more decisions. This is seeing science from a scientist's rather than a ...

Contents

• PROLOGUE: 1
• PART ONE BEGIN NINGS: 7
• MOSCOW 1987: 9

Bibliographic information

• Title: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet
• Author: Steve Squyres
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Hyperion, 2005
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 21, 2007
• ISBN: 1401301495, 9781401301491
• Length: 422 pages
• Subjects: Science / Astronomy; Science / General; Science / Nanoscience; Science / Physics / Astrophysics; Science / Space Science