Travels with Curiosity : exploring Mars by rover / Charles J. Byrne.

Of "MSL Mission and Science Investigation" -- Habitability and Preservation -- Environmental Records -- Management of the MSL Science Team -- Gale Crater Field Site -- Entry, Descent, and Landing -- Commissioning Phase -- Surface Operations -- Mission Operations After Landing -- Strategic...

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Main Author: Byrne, Charles J., 1935- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Mars Science Laboratory Mission
  • Curiosity's resources
  • Entry, descent, and landing
  • Travel to a dry stream bed and Yellow Knife Bay
  • Travel along the Bagnold Dunes to Mount Sharp
  • The Pahrump Hills, Lake Sediment, and the Murray Formation
  • Murray and Stimson formations, Murray Buttes, and the Dune Campaign
  • Two formations : deposited and eroded
  • Ascent to the Vera Rubin Ridge
  • The clay-bearing unit
  • Management, performance, and productivity of the MSL science team
  • Mars 2020 : in the tracks of giants.