Caves -- Lava tubes -- Inventor feature: -- Spelunker (and what's in a name) -- Locating caves -- A campaign of exploration -- Stage one: orbital scouting -- Stage two: scouting by aerial and surface craft -- Inventor feature: Jules Verne -- Stage three: descending into the pit -- Big idea: the tyrolean traverse -- Inventor feature: mother of invention -- Stage four: underground exploration -- Big idea: seeing in the dark -- Inventor feature: Farmer Red -- Why study caves? -- Big idea: future cave dwellers -- Whittaker and his team.
Summary:
"A volume explaining engineer William "Red" Whittaker's plan to develop robots designed to explore the unknown caves on the moon and Mars"--Provided by publisher.
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