Title:
Meet NASA inventor Geoffrey Landis and his team's land-sailing Venus rover :
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ISBN:
9780716661603
Physical Description:
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series:
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.
Reading Level:
1000 L Lexile
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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"--
