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Mars up close : inside the Curiosity mission /

National Geographic and science journalist Marc Kaufman combine inside stories, fascinating facts and eye-popping pictures, some never before seen, of the red planet and NASA's groundbreaking Curiosity mission. Renowned author Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufman, Marc (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2014]
Subjects:
Mars (Planet) > Exploration.
Curiosity (Spacecraft)
Table of Contents:
  • The landing
  • On Bradbury Rise
  • Getting started
  • The river
  • Mars looks different
  • In search of organics
  • A habitable place?
  • The anomaly
  • Stories in stone
  • Driving Curiosity
  • The promised land
  • Fourth planet astrobiology
  • Humans to Mars
  • Reflections.