Inside the Mars Rover
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Is there life on Mars? Could humans survive on the Red Planet? These age-old questions have prompted many missions to Mars, and this informative manual covers the development, design, and engineering of three generations of Mars rovers. The Sojourner, which landed in 1997, was the size of a microwave. Spirit and Opportunity, both the size of a shopping cart, followed in 2004. Curiosity, the size of a car, landed in 2012. With this illustrated guide, readers will learn how these machines work as well as what they have found and hope to discover, and about the possibility that humans may set foot on Mars.
David Baker
David Baker is a history and science writer for SimonWhistler.com who holds the world's first PhD in Big History, studying under David Christian. He has delivered award-winning lectures at Macquarie University and the University of Amsterdam, is a visiting lecturer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green in partnership with the Gates Big History Project. He is the author of The Shortest History of the World, and Sex.
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