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Seeing Like a Rover (Hardcover)
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Seeing Like a Rover (Hardcover)
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In the years since the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Rover
first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have
become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape.
But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem
to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of
decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers.
With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes
to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars.
Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be
processed, manipulated, and interpreted - and all that comes after
team members negotiate with each other about what they should even
be taking photographs of in the first place. Vertesi's account of
the inspiringly successful Rover project reveals science in action,
a world where digital processing uncovers scientific truths, where
images are used to craft consensus, and where team members develop
an uncanny intimacy with the sensory apparatus of a robot that is
millions of miles away. Ultimately, Vertesi shows, every image
taken by the Mars Rovers is not merely a picture of Mars - it's a
portrait of the whole Rover team, as well.
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