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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... later another Russian probe struck the surface somewhere near the dry valley called Samara . None sent back anything by way of a message . In 1976 America's more sophisticated Viking landers lowered themselves gently to sites in the ...
... 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 by a single agreed - upon meridian , but surely there are monuments elsewhere . Maybe ...
... later . The obvious drawback was that an unhealthy number of the people commemorated on Mars were now British . When the French astronomer Camille Flammarion revised Proctor's nomenclature for his own map of 1876 , various continen ...
... later , his latest Martian control net held 36,397 points from 6,320 images . Well into his eighties , Davies was still hard at work augmenting it further . Davies had been interested in astronomy since boyhood , an interest he had ...
... later , in 1969 , Davies was a key part of the team dealing with the images they sent back . His particular contribution was to work on the mathematical techniques needed to turn the disparate images into the most reliable possible ...
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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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