Mars Rover - How a Self-Portrait Captured the Power of Curiosity
Author(s): Danielle Smith-Llera
Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity's mission on Mars, the rover is not simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place. Curiosity's instruments collect data and its cameras take images of the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on Mars? Could there be one day?
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- : Compass Point Books
- : CPB Grades 4-8
- : 01 July 2017
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Danielle Smith-Llera
- : Danielle Smith-Llera
- : 64
- : 64
- : 629.295
- : 629.295
- : English
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Paperback