SOLVED. NON-FICTION SCIENCE book about the CheMin instrument on the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover. [s]

[Kris]

Mars Landing 2012: Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission by Marc Kaufman?

[Tab]

The author of this article on CheMin has his references listed at the bottom of the page. You may find your book there

http://www.geochemsoc.org/publication...

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity?

Reviewers said:

As other reviewers have pointed out, this is not REALLY a book about exploring Mars but about the experience of one scientist in the development of a single scientific instrument that is now aboard the Curiosity rover...
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The book is about one of the test instruments aboard the Mars Rover Curiosity, and the team that built and developed it. You don't need to be a scientist or an engineer to read this, although it does make it more interesting.
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This is not a history of robotic space exploration. This is about one man's involvement with these projects.
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Mr. Wiens tells a captivating adventure story of space exploration culminating in his leading a team overseeing one of the payload instruments on the ongoing successful Curiosity Rover Mission to Mars.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

You're welcome. I had searched for this a long time ago and came up empty, but this time I guess I just got lucky.