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

✍ Scribed by Kessler, Andrew

• Book ID: 109101535
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 243 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781497641402

✦ Synopsis

Get up close and personal with science as Andrew Kessler narrates his hilarious journey inside NASA's Phoenix Mars mission--a historic enterprise manned by a motley crew of rocket scientists
The Phoenix Mars mission was the first man-made probe ever sent to the Martian arctic. Its purpose was to find out how climate change could 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's fact. And for the luckiest fanboy in fandom, it was the best vacation ever. Andrew Kessler spent the summer of 2008 in NASA's mission control with one hundred thirty of the world's best planetary scientists and engineers as they carried out this ambitious operation. He...