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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... Mariner 9 The Art of Drawing The Laser Altimeter Part 2 : Histories Meteor Crater " A Little Daft on the Subject of the Moon " An Antique Land Maps and Multiple Hypotheses The Artist's Eye Layers 9 13 30 220 37 49 60 73 له لا چل 79 95 ...
... rest of us that's it . The lan- der is lost . The last tents in the media caravan are folded up just after midnight ; we don't even have the ingenuity , or stamina , to find a bar . Mariner 9 I think it's part of the nature of 36 MAPS.
... 9 revealed a Mars that was fasci- nating in its own right , rather than disappointing in the light of pre- vious earthly expectations . And Mariner 9 allowed a small team of artists and artisans to make the first detailed , reliable 37 ...
... Mariner 9 and its earlier siblings ( two of which , Mariner 2 and Mariner 5 , went to Venus , not Mars ) . One was that Mariner 9 had a largish rocket system on board , its cluster of spherical fuel tanks hiding the distinctive octag ...
... practical business of mapping . Among other things , America was committed to landing robot probes on Mars to look for life in 1976. Those probes — the Vikings - needed landing sites , and choosing landing sites 39 MARINER 9.
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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 |
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