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Land-sailing Venus rover

Call Number

  • J 629.4354 DELA (OSH)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]

Physical Description

48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Audience

Ages 5-11.

Summary

"A volume explaining inventor Geoffrey Landis's plan to develop space rovers that use the power of wind to explore the surface of Venus"--

Contents

  • Destination: Venus
  • Inventor feature: Rocket man
  • Hostile conditions
  • Previous explorations
  • Inventor feature: Veteran of Mars
  • Roving Venus
  • Taking the heat
  • Big idea: High-temperature electronics
  • Inventor feature: science fiction author
  • Cloudy skies ahead
  • Big idea: Land sailing
  • Getting around
  • Inventor feature: Other interests
  • Surfing the Venusian winds
  • Geoffrey Landis and his team.

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