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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... become the central preoccupation of space explo- ration , its discovery is routinely held up as the most important ... become a planet and so the planets must become worlds , a process accelerated by the Galilean discovery that , like ...
... become unique again . The now - iconic image of a blue - white planet floating in space , or hanging over the deadly deserts of the moon , reinforces the Earth's isolation and specialness . And it is this excep- tionalism that drives ...
... become Martians is the strongest of the links between Mars and the Earth . At the beginning of the space age at the moment when it became clear to all that Mars might indeed one day be experienced subjectively — the International ...
... become America's main center for planetary exploration . By 1961 , JPL was planning NASA's first Mars mission , Mariner 4. The man in charge of building a camera for it was Robert Leighton , a Caltech physics professor . He asked a ...
... becomes a strange new land below them ; the ice - white limb of the planet barring the sky becomes a curved horizon . The outer reaches of the atmosphere begin to stroke the lander's protec- tive aeroshell , too thin at first to have ...
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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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