Seeing like a Rover :

Vertesi, Janet,

Seeing like a Rover : how robots, teams, and images craft knowledge of Mars / Janet Vertesi, The University of Chicago Press. - [2015] - xi, 318 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.

Introduction: seeing Mars and drawing Mars -- Where do images come from? planning a day on Mars -- Calibration: crafting trustworthy images of Mars -- Image processing: drawing as and its consequences -- "These images are our maps": drawing, seeing, and interacting -- Collective visions -- Visualization, embodiment, and social order -- Constraints and lookiloo: the limits of interpretation -- "Surviving politically" and the Martian picturesque.

9780226155968 (cloth : alk. paper)

2014029027


Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)--Data processing.


Roving vehicles (Astronautics)--Automatic control--Data processing.
Image processing--Digital techniques.


Mars (Planet)--Exploration--Data processing.


Print books.

TL799.M3 / V47 2015

523.43072/3

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