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Author: Markus Motum
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2023-10-24
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 1536233250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his debut picture book, Motum brings the story of NASA's beloved Mars rover Curiosity to life in vivid color. Full of eye-catching retro illustrations, this book is sure to fascinate budding space explorers and set inquisitive minds soaring. Full color.
Author: James Duffett-Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 15
ISBN-13: 1628733519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar off into space—186 million miles to be precise—a fearless robot rover travels all by his lonesome. He is on a crucial mission from Earth, eagerly seeking to answer the much-anticipated question: Does life exist on Mars? But there is nothing to be seen on this planet except miles of rocks. He loses support from mission control and finds himself alone and cut off from civilization. But the curious little robot is resilient! After noticing a flash of light shining brilliantly through the crack of a rock, he instantly realizes his mission is far from over. He slowly inches towards the edge, but then suddenly falls perilously into the darkness! What will he discover? Bethany Straker's vibrant illustrations accompany James Duffett-Smith's suspenseful tale of discovery and hope. A Curious Robot on Mars! will motivate any and all readers to strive for one's ambitions—and most importantly, to always be curious!
Author: Emily Lakdawalla
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-27
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 331968146X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Sara Schonfeld
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 152479290X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven robots have birthdays! Celebrate Curiosity and wish happy birthday to one of NASA's most famous Mars rovers in this beautiful picture book! "The book is adorable. . . a celebration of curiosity and exploration." - GeekDad.com Mars is our closest neighbor, and a little robot named Curiosity is investigating the planet for us. Join for a tour of the place this rover calls home. Get to know Mars through eye-catching illustrations of an alien landscape and the adorable robot in charge of exploring it all. And this rover's birthday is a perfect time to celebrate curiosity. For nerdy parents, fans of space, or those who are just curious, relive the moment when the Curiosity rover sang itself happy birthday in 2013 after one year on Mars.
Author: Marc Kaufman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 142621278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts, and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author 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. With images never published before, and computer-enhanced with colors that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the only book that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Nancy Atkinson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-12-20
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1624143172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Incredible Stories from Space, veteran space journalist Nancy Atkinson shares compelling insights from over 35 NASA scientists and engineers, taking readers behind the scenes of the unmanned missions that are transforming our understanding of the solar system and beyond. Weaving together one-on-one interviews along with the extraordinary sagas of the spacecraft themselves, this book chronicles the struggles and triumphs of nine current space missions and captures the true spirit of exploration and discovery.
Author: Buzz Aldrin
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1426322062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apollo 11 astronaut invites young people to evaluate Mars as a potential planet for human colonization, and describes what Mars residents might experience while traveling to and living on the Red Planet.
Author: Jeanne Wald
Publisher: Jeanne Wald
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9782956857310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMia has a secret dream-to fly to Mars. So when a field trip to the space center is promised for participation in the school science fair, Mia is thrilled. The only problem: her attempt to build a mini-rocket in her backyard ends in a flop. But it also leads her to an extraordinary encounter-with a curious robot who wants to learn imagination.
Author: Adam Steltzner
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1591846927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdam Steltzner is no ordinary engineer. His path to leadership was about as unlikely as they come. A child of beatnik parents, he barely made it through school. He blew off college in favour of work at a health food store and playing bass in a band, but after discovering an astonishing gift for maths and physics, he ended up helping a group of scientists land the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration on Mars. This is the story of the teamwork, drama and extraordinary feats of innovation at the Jet Propulsion Lab that culminated in that landing in 2012.
Author: Nancy Riley
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781735737102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCuriosity, the Mars rover, has been on Mars for many years searching for signs of life. She's listened and explored . . . collected piles of data, but will she ever find a friend?CURIOSITY'S DISCOVERY is a mystery adventure on Mars. When Curiosity, the plucky rover, hears an unusual electronic signal, she zooms off to discover the source. She must figure out the strange code and find the sender before the transmission disappears forever. The rhyming picture book explores the themes of resourcefulness, perseverance, and friendship. At the back of the book are bonus pages filled with fun facts about Mars, the NASA rover program, and Morse code. For ages 4-8.
