Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026201775X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's a rare view 'behind the curtain' and provides insight that can inform future exploration of Mars. (Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center)William Clancey provides an important philosophical as well as technical perspective for future tele-robotic missions to the Moon and planets. Little did we know that we would in turn become someone else's science project! William Clancey watched MER as it unfolded. (Steve Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University; Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rovers Mission)Working on Mars provides an enlightening look at running a robotic exploration mission like Spirit and Opportunity -- and now Curiosity -- and its implications for the future of space exploration itself. But William Clancey gives us a new perspective: how t
The MER created a virtual experience of being on Mars. Drawing on his extensive observations of scientists in the field and at the JPL, Clancey investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them. He shows how the scientists felt not as if they were issuing commands to a machine but rather as if they were working on the red planet, riding together in the rover on a voyage of discovery.Learn more about the book here: youtube/watch?v=oZQSWSZnTYs&feature=youtube_gdata. Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their to
Clancey is Chief Scientist of Human-Centered Computing in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center, and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.. William J
Amazon Customer said Superb in several disciplines. A superb ethnography deserving to be read by a much larger audience than it's likely to get. This is how the anthropology of technology use should be done, what an STS lab study should look like, and how powerful insights into the changing practices of field and laboratory science should be analyzed.Clancey performed an ethnography of the Opportunity/Spirit Mars rover teams, and witnessed a new syn. Gift for father in law Lakeview Sox Father in law loves Mars and space-related topics. This was one of the few books he did not already own.. spin_glass said somebodies thesis. I find with a lot of material from MIT press you are getting somebodies thesis. This seems to be the case with this book. I didn't find it all that engaging and left it about a third of the way through. No real issues with this book, competently written and so on just not written for a mass market. Though if you're into anthropology you might find it worth a read.