EAN: 9783319681443

PRAXIS BOOKS THE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OF CU...

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.

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