Exploration and engineering : the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the quest for Mars /

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Although the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has become synonymous with the United States' planetary exploration during the past half century, its most recent focus has been on Mars. Beginning in the 1990s and continuing through the Mars Phoenix mission of 2007, JPL led the w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conway, Erik M., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
Colección:New series in NASA history.
Temas:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Space flight to Mars.
Mechanical Engineering.
Engineering & Applied Sciences.
Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics.
Vol vers Mars.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Planets > Exploration
Space flight to Mars
Mars (Planet) > Exploration.
Mars (Planète) > Exploration.
Mars (Planet)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Planetary observers, Mars observer
  • Politics and engineering on the Martian frontier
  • Attack of the great galactic ghoul!
  • Engineering for uncertainty
  • Mars mania!
  • The faster, better, cheaper future
  • Revenge of the great galactic ghoul
  • Recovery and reform
  • Margins on the final frontier
  • Sending a spy satellite to Mars
  • Robotic geologists on Mars
  • Mars phoenix : re-engineering the Polar Lander.

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