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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... hundred yards across the park to the White House on Crooms Hill , where he died a decade later . It's a little sad that the White House doesn't carry a blue circular plaque to commemorate Airy's part in the happiness brought to humanity ...
... craters of Mars were first discovered by space probes , hundreds of astronomers have been thus immortalized . But none of them has a crater more fitting than Airy's . A Point of Warlike Light " I've never been to 12 MAPS.
... hundred yards , as opposed to a few miles . The frustration is that you can't see the spacecraft . About the size of small cars , from orbital distances hundreds of miles — they are lost in the Martian deserts . The Mars Observer Camera ...
... hundreds of paying customers turning up for a parallel popular event held by a group called the Planetary Society , a planetary - science fan club and lobbying organization created by Bruce Murray , Carl Sagan , and a one - time JPL ...
... hundreds of events controlled by thousands of mechanisms and circuits , any one of which could go wrong . Because of all this — and especially because the lab's previous Mars mission , Mars Climate Orbiter , ended in ignominious failure ...
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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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