Book
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- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Land-sailing Venus rover
Publication Information
Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Audience
Ages 5-11.
Series
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.
Subjects
- Roving vehicles (Astronautics) > Juvenile literature.
- Space vehicles > Propulsion systems > Juvenile literature.
- Wind power > Juvenile literature.
- Venus (Planet) > Exploration > Juvenile literature.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Landis, Geoffrey > Juvenile literature.