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Mars rover : how a self-portrait captured the power of Curiosity / by Danielle Smith-Llera.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Captured history. Science.Publisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 64 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780756556419 (library binding)
  • 0756556414 (library binding)
  • 9780756556457 (pbk.)
  • 0756556457 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Chapter one: Seven terrifying minutes -- Chapter two: Follow the water -- Chapter three: Racing toward the prize -- Chapter four: The hunt for signs of life.
Summary: Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity s mission on Mars, the rover is not simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place. Curiosity s instruments collect data and its cameras take images of the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on Mars? Could there be one day?
List(s) this item appears in: Space Exploration
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 523.43 S654 Available 33111008854990
Total holds: 0

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Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity's mission on Mars, the rover is not simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place. Curiosity's instruments collect data and its cameras take images of the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on Mars? Could there be one day?

Includes bibliographical references (page 63) and index.

Chapter one: Seven terrifying minutes -- Chapter two: Follow the water -- Chapter three: Racing toward the prize -- Chapter four: The hunt for signs of life.

Ages 10-12.

Grades 4 to 6.

RL: 5-7 ; IL: 5-9.

Weighing as much as a small car, a rover named Curiosity rolls quietly around Mars. Scientific instruments pack its body and cluster at the end of a mechanical arm. An arrangement of lenses and instruments tops its mast, like a face. To the many NASA workers involved in Curiosity s mission on Mars, the rover is not simply a robot, but an astronaut bravely exploring an alien place. Curiosity s instruments collect data and its cameras take images of the Mars landscape, including self-portraits, in vivid color and detail. As it roams and explores, Curiosity will help find the answers to such age-old questions as has there ever been life on Mars? Could there be one day?

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