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Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission
National Geographic Society
July 2012
On Sale: July 17, 2012
ISBN: 1426210930 EAN: 9781426210938 Kindle: B0084UNCK8 e-Book
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Non-Fiction
National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the
anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary
expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6,
2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its
255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale
Crater, its target on the martian surface, decelerating from
13,200 to 0 mph in 7 minutes. The whole world will be
watching this, the most complicated and precise landing ever
undertaken, and wondering: What’s the inside story on this
Curiosity mission, and what do NASA scientists hope
Curiosity will find? In this e-short, written by Washington
Post science correspondent Marc Kaufman and published just
as the suspense builds, with Curiosity hurtling toward Mars,
space science readers, techies, and informed news junkies
will find answers to these and other fascinating questions
about the red planet.
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