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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... orbit could we see Mars for what it is , a planet with a surface area as great as that of the Earth's continents , all of it as measurable , as real as the stones in the pave- ment outside your door . After millennia of talking about ...
... orbit — is , at 25.2 ° , very similar to the obliquity of the Earth . The third is that though Mars is considerably smaller than the Earth a little more than half its radius , a little more than a tenth its mass - its surface area , at ...
... orbit a fire yet vaster ) has been rewritten . Yes , the Earth that is our world is also a planet . But not all planets are worlds . We no longer need the point of view of a mythical Martian to 19 A POINT OF WARLIKE LIGHT.
... orbit , their bar- ren shoals are bright with shipwrecked stars . -John McPhee , In Suspect Terrain It was Merton Davies who put Airy in his prime position . Mert is a kindly man , tall and thin , dignified but rather jolly . Everyone ...
... orbit . ( At the Pentagon he had analyzed Russian pictures of the far side of the moon to see whether they might be fakes . ) When Mariner 4's television camera sent back its image - data — a string of twenty - one grainy pictures ...
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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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