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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... Viking landers lowered themselves gently to sites in the northern plains of Chryse and Utopia , sending back panoramas of rock and rubble beneath pink - looking skies . But the Vikings eventually fell silent too , leaving Mars alone ...
... Viking landers in 1976 , and 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 ...
... Viking 1 had landed — was , in fact , wrong . In a week's time he was going to go and tell the American Geophys- ical Union's fall meeting about the mistake and the fact that it had introduced an error of a fraction of a degree into the ...
... Viking lander , simultaneously celebrating its far - flung location and pulling it back from nature into the human world . Here's what we're not seeing by around lunchtime on 3 Decem- ber : About ten minutes before it hits the ...
... practical business of mapping . Among other things , America was committed to landing robot probes on Mars to look for life in 1976. Those probes — the Vikings - needed landing sites , and choosing landing sites 39 MARINER 9.
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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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