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008 131126s2014 pau b 001 0 eng c
010 _a 2013046521
020 _a9781426212789
_q(hardcover:
_qalkaline paper)
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050 0 0 _aQB641
_b.K24 2014
082 0 0 _a559.9/23
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100 1 _aKaufman, Marc,
245 1 0 _aMars up close :
_binside the Curiosity mission /
_cMarc Kaufman.
250 _a1st edition.
264 1 _aWashington, D.C. :
_bNational Geographic,
_c[2014]
300 _a302 pages :
_bchiefly color illustrations ;
_c32 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe landing -- On Bradbury Rise -- Getting started -- The river -- Mars looks different -- In search of organics -- A habitable place? -- The anomaly -- Stories in stone -- Driving Curiosity -- The promised land -- Fourth planet astrobiology -- Humans to Mars -- Reflections.
651 0 _aMars (Planet)
_xExploration.
610 2 0 _aCuriosity (Spacecraft)
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