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title: "Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission Hardcover – August 5, 2014"
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# Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission Hardcover – August 5, 2014

**Brand:** marc kaufman
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- **What is this?** Mars Up Close: Inside the Curiosity Mission Hardcover – August 5, 2014 by marc kaufman
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐ 2.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Magnificent book, but fails to address weather problems
  

*by B***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015*

To be sure, if I were going to rate this book for beauty and information about many of the people who made MOST of the MSL mission a success, I would give it 5 stars. So why did I rate it just 2 stars? Because it contains disinformation. My son and I have done a 6-year in depth study of the Martian atmosphere trying to determine how a planet with an accepted near-vacuum average pressure of 6.1 millibars (compared to 1,013.25 mbar on Earth) can have such a bright (blue) sky, enormous and highly frequent dust devils, global dust storms, storms over the mountain Arsia Mons with 10 km-wide eye walls, moving barchan sands dunes, sand filling in tracks of rovers, snow seen falling at Phoenix, excessive aerobraking of orbiters, and stratus clouds 13 km above areoid (the equivalent of sea level on Mars). We have gotten JPL to pull down erroneous wind data, and forced many other corrections to data posted by the REMS team. In short, we show in our 700-page report, Mars Correct: Critique of All NASA Mars Weather Data, with Emphasis on Pressure, that air pressure on Mars is about 83 times higher than NASA asserts. We point out problems with pressure transducer design (dust filters clog on landing, and there is no way to change them) causing pressure measured to vary inversely with heat applied to pressure sensors behind dust clots. Mars Up Close totally avoids weather data problems with Curiosity. It only tells us that a wind sensor flew off on landing. There can be only two reasons for JPL’s loyalty to low pressures on Mars. One is human error, the other is disinformation. We cannot blame Marc Kaufman for being led by the nose by JPL to overlook the lack of or absolutely wrong weather data that is published by JPL every day, but if Elon Musk wants to finish his life on Mars we would strong advise him to view the PowerPoint for and read the Basic Report for our Mars Correct report. Elon, when you have done that, please contact us so we can point you in the right direction. You own condos in our Shorewood complex here in Cape Canaveral. Stop by for dinner if you visit.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    What our next generation of brilliant kids needs to know
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2020*

I bought this book on establishing a presence on Mars FIVE years ago.  My granddaughter was enchanted by the concept and the pictures and the technology. Now she says science is her favorite subject ... and frankly I credit this book, among others, for feeding that interest. Now we both get a kick when she reads the captions under the pictures, as Mars has always been one of my favorite subjects, speaking of which, here is another great Mars book that is never included in the "Customers who viewed this item also viewed" lists on the product pages. That is a shame, That is neither logical or reasonable:https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Movies-Thomas-Kent-Miller-ebook/dp/B01N8TQ3NB/https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Movies-Thomas-Kent-Miller-dp-0786499141/dp/0786499141/

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great book for science lovers of all ages!
  

*by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2016*

My son found this at one of the big name book sellers and was really begging for it. I said no at the time for many reasons, he was only 6, it was huge and pretty advanced, and it was very expensive. I promised I'd look around for a better price and was pleased to find it on Amazon. I bought it for him for his birthday, and boy was he thrilled! I did not think that my (now 7 year old) kid would be as interested in this book, but he is absolutely a science lover. He has read many pages independently, and with help. It has fueled his interest and curiosity and lead us down an awesome road of discovery and exploration into Nasa, Outer Space, Earth, and so much more science related stuff. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in Mars, the rovers, Nasa exploration, or Outer Space enthusiasts.

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