| ISBN |
9780716662631 hardcover |
| Name |
Adams, William D., (Childrens' author) author. |
| Title |
Leaping low-gravity explorers / William D. Adams. |
| Published |
Chicago, Illinois : World Book, Inc., 2022. |
| ©2022 |
| Description |
48 pages : colour illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Notes |
Includes index. |
| "With NASA inventor, Marco Pavone"--Cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- What are small solar system bodies? -- Types of small solar system bodies -- Why study small solar system bodies? -- Send rover on rover -- Inventor feature : early life and education -- Gravity : the cause of - and solution to - all of space exploration's problems -- Inventor feature : finding his path -- Slipping and sliding -- Big idea : internal actuation -- Enter the Hedgehog -- Other benefits of flywheels -- Crazy golf -- Testing the Hedgehog -- Inventor feature : extreme focus -- Mission to Phobos -- Anatomy of a Hedgehog -- Inventor feature : other projects -- Marco Pavone and his team -- Inventor challenge : internal actuation. |
| Summary |
"Asteroids and comets are hard to explore up close. Their low gravity makes it difficult to land on them--and to travel on them without floating away! What if you could turn this disadvantage into an advantage? Learn how engineer Marco Pavone plans to build a rover to bounce across an asteroid"--Back cover. |
| Subjects |
Pavone, Marco, -- 1980- Biography |
| United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography -- Juvenile literature |
| Roving vehicles (Astronautics) -- Juvenile literature |
| Space flight to asteroids -- Juvenile literature |
| Asteroids -- Juvenile literature |
| Comets -- Juvenile literature |
| Aerospace engineering -- Juvenile literature |
| Manned space flight -- Juvenile literature |
| Space probes -- Juvenile literature |
| Outer space -- Exploration -- Juvenile literature |
| Added Corporate Names |
World Book, Inc issuing body. |
| Series |
Out of this world (World Book, Inc.) |
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