Mars Rover: How a Self-Portrait Captured the Power of Curiosity

Mars Rover: How a Self-Portrait Captured the Power of Curiosity
ISBN-10
075655649X
ISBN-13
9780756556495
Category
Juvenile Nonfiction
Pages
65
Language
English
Published
2017-07
Publisher
Capstone
Author
Danielle Smith-Llera

Description

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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