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Martian Summer - Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission (Hardcover, New)
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Martian Summer - Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission (Hardcover, New)
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There's never been a better time to be an armchair astronaut.
Forget this planet. The economy is terrible, global warming is
inevitable, and there are at least eight major wars happening right
now. That's why Kessler left home and moved to Mars. Well, not all
the way to Mars. The closest spot on Earth you can get without a
rocket. In the summer of 2008, he lived his space dream, s ending
the months in mission control of The Phoenix expedition with 130
top scientists and engineers as they explored Mars. This story is a
human drama about modern-day Magellans battling NASA politics,
temperamental robots, and the bizarre world of daily life in
mission control. Kessler was the first outsider ever granted
unfettered access to such an event, giving us a true
Mission-to-Mars exclusive. The Phoenix Mars mission was the first
man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. They wanted to find
out how climate change can turn a warm, wet planet (read: Earth)
into a cold, barren desert (read: Mars). That might seem like a
trivial pursuit, but it's probably the most impressive feat we
humans can achiee, and it took the culmination of nearly the
entirety of human knowledge to do it. Along the way, Phoenix
discovered a giant frozen ocean trapped beneath the north pole of
Mars, exotic food for aliens and liquid water. This is not science
fiction. It's fact. Not bad for a summer holiday.
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