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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... named after people who have studied the planet or evoked it in their creative work— which mostly makes Mars a mausoleum for astronomers , with a few science fiction writers thrown in for spice . In the decades since the craters of Mars ...
... named it such in honor of Frederik Kaiser of the Leiden Observatory . The Hourglass Sea became an hourglass again , though this time in French : Mer du Sablier . Proctor's other problem was more fundamental . The features he had marked ...
... named for others associated with the sun : Phoenix , Daedalus , and Icarus . The sea of the sirens borders on the sea of the muses , presum- ably because Schiaparelli wanted to provide opportunity for their earthly feud to continue ...
... named regions and features , with 105 of the names coming from Schiaparelli . Then the first spacecraft images came back and the stalwarts of the IAU needed not only more names but also new rules by which names could be assigned . It ...
... named Louise Darling . His interests made their dates a little unusual . Davies had started making a twelve - inch tele- scope , a demanding project . “ I had a hard time finishing it , ” he recalls . " The amount of grinding it took ...
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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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