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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... , 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.
... Pathfinder's story cannot encompass the whole vast world in front of me . Not yet . What about beginning on Earth ? Some places here are very like locations there , perhaps close enough to be tied together by some sort of sympathetic ...
... Pathfinder in 1997. The radio sig- nals sent back from those spacecraft revealed their positions very accurately with respect to the fixed - star reference system used by astronomers . If you could find the spacecraft in images of the ...
... Pathfinder . Any- one with a Web browser could watch as its limited little rover , Sojourner , fitfully explored the rock garden it had been landed in . It explains why the artists displaying their wares to the faithful down at ...
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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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