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Working On Mars : Voyages Of Scientific Discovery With The Mars Exploration Rovers
Hardback Edition: 1/2012
NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as “robotic geologists,” and ascribed machine initiative (“Spirit collected additional imagery . . .”) to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The scientists have since left the darkened room and work from different home bases, but the rover-enabled exploration of Mars continues. Drawing on his extensive observations of scientists in the field and at the JPL, Clancey investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them. He shows how the scientists felt not as if they were issuing commands to a machine but rather as if they were working on the red planet, riding together in the rover on a voyage of discovery.
Pages : 328
Publisher : MIT Press
Publication date : 2012-10
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Computing And IT, Engineering, Physics, Information Visualization, Robotics, Astrophysics