Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a WorldPicador, 2002 M10 4 - 304 páginas Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping will play in our understanding of the red planet, and more deeply, what it means for humans to envision such heroic landscapes. Charting a path from the 19th century visionaries to the spy-satellite pioneers to the science fiction writers and the arctic explorers -- till now, to the people are taking us there -- Morton unveils the central place that Mars has occupied in the human imagination, and what it will mean to realize these dreams. |
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... explain his nominal reasoning very exactly , but there are exceptions , most notably right in the middle of the map , at the point where dark Sinus Sabeus gives way to Sinus Margaritifer , somewhere between Arabia and the Indies , a ...
... explain why the reference points appear in the positions that they do in these pic- * In 1999 , NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter demonstrated what happens when things don't go well . When reporting its thruster firings the spacecraft's ...
... explains why the most popular unmanned space mission ever was the 1997 Mars Pathfinder . Any- one with a Web browser could watch as its limited little rover , Sojourner , fitfully explored the rock garden it had been landed in . It explains ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |
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Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |