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The Design and Engineering of Curiosity
How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job
Taschenbuch von Emily Lakdawalla
Sprache: Englisch

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This 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.
This 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedication.- Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Mars Science Laboratory.- Chapter 2: Getting to Mars.- Chapter 3: Mars Operations.- Chapter 4: How the Rover Works.- Chapter 5: SA/SPaH: Acquisition, Processing, and Handling.- Chapter 6: The Mast, Engineering Cameras, Navigation, and Hazard Avoidance.- Chapter 7: Curiosity's Science Cameras.- Chapter 8: Curiosity's Environmental Sensing Instruments.- Chapter 9: Curiosity's Chemistry Instruments.- Epilogue: Back on Earth.- Appendix.- About the Author.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Technik
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Freizeit & Natur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xiv
394 S.
16 s/w Illustr.
209 farbige Illustr.
394 p. 225 illus.
209 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319681443
ISBN-10: 3319681443
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-319-68144-3
Autor: Lakdawalla, Emily
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Hersteller: Springer
Springer, Berlin
Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Abbildungen: XIV, 394 p. 225 illus., 209 illus. in color.
Maße: 20 x 169 x 241 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Lakdawalla
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,772 kg
Artikel-ID: 111055221
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedication.- Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Mars Science Laboratory.- Chapter 2: Getting to Mars.- Chapter 3: Mars Operations.- Chapter 4: How the Rover Works.- Chapter 5: SA/SPaH: Acquisition, Processing, and Handling.- Chapter 6: The Mast, Engineering Cameras, Navigation, and Hazard Avoidance.- Chapter 7: Curiosity's Science Cameras.- Chapter 8: Curiosity's Environmental Sensing Instruments.- Chapter 9: Curiosity's Chemistry Instruments.- Epilogue: Back on Earth.- Appendix.- About the Author.- Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Mathematik, Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Technik
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Freizeit & Natur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xiv
394 S.
16 s/w Illustr.
209 farbige Illustr.
394 p. 225 illus.
209 illus. in color.
ISBN-13: 9783319681443
ISBN-10: 3319681443
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-319-68144-3
Autor: Lakdawalla, Emily
Auflage: 1st ed. 2018
Hersteller: Springer
Springer, Berlin
Springer International Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Abbildungen: XIV, 394 p. 225 illus., 209 illus. in color.
Maße: 20 x 169 x 241 mm
Von/Mit: Emily Lakdawalla
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,772 kg
Artikel-ID: 111055221
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