Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a WorldFourth Estate, 2002 - 351 páginas "Their world is a dramatic one. On Mars the volcano Ascraeus Mons climbs to more than twice the height of Everest; the impact basin Hellas, as wide as Western Europe, plunges deeper than the Pacific; the canyons of Valles Marineris form a scar as broad as a continent. Our maps fill the emptiness with the names of ancient and imagined lands - Olympus, Arcadia, Hesperia - and departed friends - H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Carl Sagan." "Only on Mars does Utopia have a latitude and longitude. This is the story of how its measure was taken, and of the men and women inspired to explore it and, eventually, to bring it to life."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... landing sites , the biologists whose studies were the raison d'être for the Viking missions to Mars took the back seat as geologists worried about where their ships might safely come to shore . Geology , with its intense concentration ...
... landing sites , the biologists whose studies were the raison d'être for the Viking missions to Mars took the back seat as geologists worried about where their ships might safely come to shore . Geology , with its intense concentration ...
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... landing site . Candidate sites which looked far safer than the original turned out to be just as rough in terms of the radar return , and the unseen trumped the seen . Only on 12 July - eight days after the symbolically weighted date ...
... landing site . Candidate sites which looked far safer than the original turned out to be just as rough in terms of the radar return , and the unseen trumped the seen . Only on 12 July - eight days after the symbolically weighted date ...
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... landing sites with delicate reticules . ( The less precisely known locations of the failed Soviet Mars landers of the 1970s are left off . ) In the years to come the landing - site symbols will proliferate as more Martian locations become ...
... landing sites with delicate reticules . ( The less precisely known locations of the failed Soviet Mars landers of the 1970s are left off . ) In the years to come the landing - site symbols will proliferate as more Martian locations become ...
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Part One Maps | 3 |
Part Two Histories | 67 |
Part Three Water | 147 |
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