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Seeing like a Rover : how robots, teams, and images craft knowledge of Mars / Janet Vertesi, The University of Chicago Press.

By: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: xi, 318 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226155968 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 523.43072/3 23
LOC classification:
  • TL799.M3 V47 2015
Contents:
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.
Item type: BOOKS
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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.

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