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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... again . Preludes , not beginnings . Twenty years later , the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration's ( NASA ) little Pathfinder , cocooned in airbags , bounced to a halt in the rocky fields where Ares Vallis had 2 INTRODUCTION.
... decades since the 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.
... space machine , en- counters with Martians were impossible . So while there might be intelligent Martians , there could be no links of history or interest between them and us . This gave the Mar- tians an interesting rhetorical niche ...
... space age has opened new ways of seeing mere matter , though , it has also fostered a strange return to something reminis- cent of the pre - Copernican universe . The life that Lowell and his like expected elsewhere has not appeared ...
... space age at the moment when it became clear to all that Mars might indeed one day be experienced subjectively — the International Astronomical Union stepped in to clean up the planet's increasingly baroque nomenclature . Thanks to the ...
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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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