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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... close enough to be tied together by some sort of sympathetic story - magic . Maybe Antarctica , where the dri- est , coldest landscapes on Earth are regularly visited by scientists wanting to get some sense of a smaller , drier , colder ...
... close horizon . I don't know who those people will be , or when they will get there , or where on the planet they will first set their feet . But I know that for all their importance , they will not be a new story's beginning , rather a ...
... close to him . In 1942 , when he was working for the Douglas Aircraft corporation in El Segundo , California , he started courting a girl named Louise Darling . His interests made their dates a little unusual . Davies had started making ...
... close friends and Mert started to think he might want to get involved in Murray's end of the space program . After all , he had the right credentials : He had been in the space business since the days of the V2 and he had some ...
... close as possible to satisfying all the data . Effectively , the final answer said , “ If the ref- erence points you've specified are arranged in just this way with respect to one another , and if the spacecraft was at these particular ...
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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 |