Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

by Janet Vertesi

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022615596X
• ISBN13: 9780226155968
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.1"