Seeing Like a Rover

How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

Autor: Janet Vertesi

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Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press

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In the years since the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from...

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Autor

Janet Vertesi

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

304

EAN

9780226155968

ISBN

022615596X

Enbook ID

09231798

Wydawca

The University of Chicago Press

Waga

876

Wymiary

163 x 240 x 28

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In the years since the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers. With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us behind the scenes to reveal the work that goes into creating our knowledge of Mars. Every photograph that the Rovers take, she shows, must be processed, manipulated, and interpreted - and all that comes after team members negotiate with each other about what they should even be taking photographs of in the first place. Vertesi's account of the inspiringly successful Rover project reveals science in action, a world where digital processing uncovers scientific truths, where images are used to craft consensus, and where team members develop an uncanny intimacy with the sensory apparatus of a robot that is millions of miles away. Ultimately, Vertesi shows, every image taken by the Mars Rovers is not merely a picture of Mars - it's a portrait of the whole Rover team, as well.

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