Vertesi, Janet Amelia (Author)
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.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 70/06 (2009). Pub. no. AAT 3363547.
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Vertesi, Janet Amelia;
(2015)
Seeing Like a Rover: How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars
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Lambright, W. Henry;
(2014)
Why Mars: NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration
(/isis/citation/CBB001550039/)
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Evan Moritz;
(2021)
Interplanetary Interventions: Performative Possibilities for Anti-Colonialist Visions of Mars
(/isis/citation/CBB298027979/)
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Conway, Erik M.;
(2015)
Exploration and Engineering: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Quest for Mars
(/isis/citation/CBB001422612/)
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Lisa Messeri;
(2016)
Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds
(/isis/citation/CBB151926948/)
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Richard Tutton;
(May 2018)
Multiplanetary Imaginaries and Utopia: The Case of Mars One
(/isis/citation/CBB783094574/)
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Volland, Nicolai;
(2014)
Comment on “Let's Go to the Moon”
(/isis/citation/CBB001214667/)
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McMillen, Kelly R.;
(2000)
The Case for Mars VI: Making Mars an Affordable Destination
(/isis/citation/CBB000112079/)
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Bell, Jim;
(2003)
Once and Future Mars
(/isis/citation/CBB000300381/)
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Russo, Arturo;
(2011)
Europe's Path To Mars: The European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission
(/isis/citation/CBB001220818/)
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Hubbard, Scott;
(2011)
Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery
(/isis/citation/CBB001251289/)
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Alexander C. T. Geppert;
Daniel Brandau;
Tilmann Siebeneichner;
(2021)
Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War
(/isis/citation/CBB799400402/)
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Logsdon, John M;
(2010)
John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
(/isis/citation/CBB001033314/)
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Hardesty, Von;
Eisman, Gene;
Khrushchev, Sergei;
(2007)
Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race
(/isis/citation/CBB001231463/)
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Nicholas Michael Sambaluk;
(2015)
The Other Space Race: Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security
(/isis/citation/CBB873284440/)
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Zara Mirmalek;
(2020)
Making Time on Mars
(/isis/citation/CBB714285733/)
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Mirmalek, Zara Lenora;
(2008)
Solar Discrepancies: Mars Exploration and the Curious Problem of Inter-Planetary Time
(/isis/citation/CBB001561225/)
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Lambright, W. Henry;
(2003)
Space Policy in the 21st Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000302130/)
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Vertesi, Janet;
(2012)
Seeing Like a Rover: Visualization, Embodiment, and Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
(/isis/citation/CBB001250747/)
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Iina Kohonen;
(2017)
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor
(/isis/citation/CBB291787050/)
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