Thesis ID: CBB001561212

“Seeing Like a Rover”: Images in Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (2009)

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Vertesi, Janet Amelia (Author)


Lynch, Michael E.
Cornell University


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Advisor: Lynch, Michael
Physical Details: 455 pp.
Language: English

This dissertation analyzes the use of images on the Mars Exploration Rover mission to both conduct scientific investigations of Mars and plan robotic operations on its surface. Drawing upon three years of fieldwork with the Mars Rover team including ethnography, participant observation, and interviews, the dissertation contributes to the literature in Science & Technology Studies by advancing the analytical framework of drawing as : a practical corollary to Wittgenstein and Hanson's concepts of seeing as that allows the analyst to explore the work of producing scientific images that draw natural objects as analytical objects to enable future representations and interactions. Further, images of Mars betray the social organization of the mission team and its commitment to consensus operations. Observing how images of Mars are drawn as trustworthy documents, drawn as a hypothesis or as a record of collective agreement, drawn as a map for the Rover and drawn as a public space, the disertation demonstrates how interactions with and around Mars Rover images support this political orientation, making the Rover's body a body politic.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 70/06 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3363547.


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Authors & Contributors
Vertesi, Janet Amelia
Mirmalek, Zara Lenora
Lambright, W. Henry
Siebeneichner, Tilmann
Evan Moritz
Laine, Eero
Concepts
Space research and exploration
Space travel; space flight
Mars
Space programs
Technology and politics
Solar system; planets
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
North Korea
Europe
Institutions
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
European Space Agency
Place
Project Apollo (NASA)
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