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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... Martian giants . Or Arizona's Meteor Crater , where earthly geologists first came to grips with what a little bit of asteroid can do to the face of a planet , given enough speed . They are all places where one can learn about Mars ...
... 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 that they quickly made their 18 MAPS.
... Martians made little differ- ence to the earthly lives of Lowell's readers and this , I suspect , is one of the things that made them easy to believe in . Another spur to belief was the difference that the existence of Martian minds ...
... Martians is the strongest of the links between Mars and the Earth . At the beginning of the space age at the moment when it ... Martian meridian . Lacking a transit circle made of good Ipswich steel - or , for that matter , any ancient ...
... Martian control net held 36,397 points from 6,320 images . Well into his eighties , Davies was still hard at work augmenting it further . Davies had been interested in astronomy since boyhood , an interest he had shared with those close ...
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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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