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The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures Of Spirit And Opportunity (2012)

by Elizabeth Rusch(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

054747881X (ISBN13: 9780547478814)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

HMH Books for Young Readers

review 1: In the story Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity the incredible true story of the Mars rovers is brought to life again in the form of an educational storybook. Through pictures and the written word the story of the two Mars rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” is told again providing the reader an experience like seeing the mission first hand. The Mars rovers were sent to Mars in 2003 in search of water on the red planet. The pictures provided for this book are incredible and offer amazing insight into the incredible mission of these two small rovers that changed the world forever. This story is fun for kids because space is such an unknown place for adults even. So this gives kids a way to understand NASA's efforts in a simple... more way.
review 2: The Mighty Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity written by Elizabeth Rusch; was a fascinating non-fiction story about the space rovers that were launched onto Mars in 2003. The rovers were designed with a number of different tools that allowed them to function on Mars as a sort of robotic geologist. The creator Steven Squyres wanted to take his passion for physically exploring our planet to Mars by developing a robot/rover that would be able to not only take pictures of the planet, but crack open rock, X-Ray the soil and discover things about the planet that we can’t from images alone. Primarily, the testing of rock and dust sample allowed us to see whether there has been any sign of long-lasting water that could potentially sustain life! This book did not only tell the story of these amazing space crafts unfathomable journey, but the physical creation, development of the idea, and a brief biography of the creator himself. The rovers themselves took three years to create after being denied by NASA numerous times! Being able to complete the assemblage of these amazing devices in such short time was quite a feat, and it took even longer to develop the idea! Squyres spent his undergrad in planetary science, and really enjoyed the study of our earth along with geologic escapades he was able to partake on, but he felt there were other planets that needed more discovery, so off to Mars he took us! less

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