Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity

by Roger Wiens

Book Overview

In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations--both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped 350 million miles from Earth to uncover the distant planet's secrets.

Its most recent scout is Curiosity--a one-ton, Jeep-sized nuclear-powered space laboratory--which is now roving the Martian surface to determine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465055982
• ISBN13: 9780465055982
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary