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Author Vertesi, Janet, author.

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

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]

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 Moore Stacks  TL799.M3 V47 2015    Available  ---
Description xi, 318 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-306) and index.
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.
Subject Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.) -- Data processing.
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
Mars (Planet) -- Exploration -- Data processing.
Mars (Planet)
Roving vehicles (Astronautics) -- Automatic control -- Data processing.
Roving vehicles (Astronautics)
Automatic control.
Image processing -- Digital techniques.
Image processing -- Digital techniques.
ISBN 022615596X (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780226155968 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
9780226156019 (e-book)