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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... Morton. For Lieutenant Arthur Noel Morton , RNVR Navigating officer , HMS Hargood , 1944-45 Lover of maps , lover of writing and loving father " Round about here , Sir . " This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction Part I :
Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton. This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction Part I : Maps Greenwich A Point of.
... Maps Greenwich A Point of Warlike Light Mert Davies's Net The Polar Lander 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 ...
... maps of another . Maps of Mars . The maps on my wall , painstakingly painted about fifteen years ago , show the surface of Mars from pole to pole . They show volca- noes that dwarf their earthly cousins in age and size . They show the ...
... map in front of me , already charted , if not yet chosen . Back to the maps , then ; in particular to the 1 : 15,000,000 shaded- relief map of the surface published by the United States Geological Survey , its three sheets fixed to my ...
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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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