Earth Rovers, for Exploration and environmental Monitoring

We are on the cusp of a new great era of exploration, of the most important planet we know.

This book introduces and formalizes the topic of using increasingly capable robotic explorers for our home planet. We have long used robotic spacecraft to explore space, the moon, the other planets of our solar system, and their moons. At least one of our spacecraft, Voyager, has left the solar system, and is still returning data on interstellar space. Unmanned explorers precede human ventures into s...