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Martian Summer: My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Temperamental Robots, and NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission

Martian Summer: My Ninety Days with Interplanetary Pioneers, Temperamental Robots, and NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission

Kessler, Andrew

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringAstronomy & Space

ISBN10: 1497641446
ISBN13: 9781497641440
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: Jul 15 2014
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A hilarious account of winning the nerd lottery--a funny, witty chronicle of a space enthusiast's ninety days with the NASA control center during the Phoenix Mars Mission.

In the summer of 2008, Andrew Kessler, the luckiest fanboy in fandom, lived his space dream, spending three months in NASA's mission control with one hundred thirty of the world's best planetary scientists and engineers as they explored the north pole of Mars. This story is a human drama about modern-day pioneers battling NASA politics, temperamental robots, and the bizarre world of daily life in mission control.

The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. The program's goal was to find out how climate change can turn a warm, wet planet (read: Earth) into a cold, barren desert (read: Mars). Along the way, Phoenix discovered a giant frozen ocean trapped beneath the north pole of Mars, exotic food for aliens and liquid water, and laid the foundation for NASA's current exploration of Mars using the Curiosity rover.

This is not science fiction. It is fact. Not bad for a summer holiday.

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