Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity

In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations?both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped 350 million miles from Earth to uncover the distant planet’s secrets.Its most recent scout is Curiosity?a one-ton, Jeep-sized nuclear- More »