The Design and Engineering of Curiosity How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job /

• Main Author: Lakdawalla, Emily (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Space Exploration
• Subjects: Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Planetology.; Astrobiology.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• 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.