Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers / writer, Jeff De La Rosa.
"A volume explaining engineer Willian "Red" Wittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780716661634
- ISBN: 0716661632
- Physical Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Caves -- Lava tubes -- Inventor feature: -- Spelunker (and what's in a name) -- Locating caves -- A campaign of exploration -- Stage one: orbital scouting -- Stage two: scouting by aerial and surface craft -- Inventor feature: Jules Verne -- Stage three: descending into the pit -- Big idea: the tyrolean traverse -- Inventor feature: mother of invention -- Stage four: underground exploration -- Big idea: seeing in the dark -- Inventor feature: Farmer Red -- Why study caves? -- Big idea: future cave dwellers -- Whittaker and his team.
- Target Audience Note:
- Ages 5-11.1010L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.6 1 192887.
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