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Exploring distant worlds as a space robot engineer / by Ruth Owen ; consultants: Kevin Yates Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Professor John Bridges Planetary Scientist, University of Leicester, UK.

Owen, Ruth, 1967- (author.).

Summary:

Inside this book, meet the space robot engineers who use science, math, and technology to design and build incredible machines that do work in outer space. How do robot engineers turn ideas and sketches into fully functioning machines? Why would a robot engineer be in a laboratory one day and a desert the next? And how do you drive and control a robot rover that's on a planet millions of miles from Earth?--Back cover

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781910549384
  • ISBN: 191054938X
  • Physical Description: 32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 21 cm.
  • Publisher: [St. Austell, England] : Ruby Tuesday Books, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibligraphical references (page 32) and index.
Target Audience Note:
900L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 0.5 177312.
Subject:
Robotics > Juvenile literature.
Engineering > Juvenile literature.
Outer space > Exploration > Juvenile literature.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Jacksonville Main Library J629.892 OWE (Text) 36015001439203 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -