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Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers / writer, Jeff De La Rosa.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Out of this worldPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780716661634
  • 0716661632
Other title:
  • Alien cave explorers [Spine title]
  • Alien cave explorers with NASA inventor Red Whittaker [Cover title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Caves -- Lava tubes -- Inventor feature: -- Spelunker (and what's in a name) -- Locating caves -- A campaign of exploration -- Stage one: orbital scouting -- Stage two: scouting by aerial and surface craft -- Inventor feature: Jules Verne -- Stage three: descending into the pit -- Big idea: the Tyrolean traverse -- Inventor feature: mother of invention -- Stage four: underground exploration -- Big idea: seeing in the dark -- Inventor feature: Farmer Red -- Why study caves? -- Big idea: future cave dwellers -- Whittaker and his team.
Summary: "A volume explaining engineer William "Red" Whittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.
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 629.435 R788 Available 33111008819654
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A volume explaining engineer Willian "Red" Wittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.

"A volume explaining engineer William "Red" Whittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Caves -- Lava tubes -- Inventor feature: -- Spelunker (and what's in a name) -- Locating caves -- A campaign of exploration -- Stage one: orbital scouting -- Stage two: scouting by aerial and surface craft -- Inventor feature: Jules Verne -- Stage three: descending into the pit -- Big idea: the Tyrolean traverse -- Inventor feature: mother of invention -- Stage four: underground exploration -- Big idea: seeing in the dark -- Inventor feature: Farmer Red -- Why study caves? -- Big idea: future cave dwellers -- Whittaker and his team.

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