Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781426212789)

With images never published before, many with surprising colors and landscapes that make you want to spend your next vacation on Mars, this is the one and only book written in consultation with NASA scientists that explains everything, detail by detail and moment by moment, about the most ambitious space expedition the human race has ever undertaken. Mars Up Close combines inside stories, fascinating facts, up-to-date maps, accessible science, eye-popping pictures, and visions of a future not that far away thanks to the groundbreaking success of NASA's Curiosity mission. Renowned science journalist Marc Kaufman spent two years embedded with the engineers and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, cheering on the rover's spine-tingling landing, learning the backstory of anticipated findings, and witnessing the inescapable frustrations that come from operating a $2.5-billion multitasking robot on a planet 35 million miles from Earth. For pop science, space, and technology lovers, Mars Up Close takes you inside the mission and onto the surface of Mars. As an added special feature, this book contains embedded Augmented Reality coding: Download NASA's free app and bring the Curiosity rover and other Mars spacecraft into 3-D reality right on its pages!

Author: Marc Kaufman
ISBN-10: 142621278X
ISBN-13: 9781426212789
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.86lbs
Size: 12.33h x 9.52w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Discover 09/01/2014 pg. 68
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014
Booklist 08/01/2014 pg. 23
Choice 05/01/2015 pg. 1522