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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... earthly cousins in age and size . They show the round scars of uncountable asteroid impacts , many far more violent than the one that killed off the Earth's dinosaurs . They show a canyon so long and deep it's as if the planet's tight ...
... 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 , where the trained imagination can almost touch it . But ...
... earthly longitudes are measured with respect to that line through Greenwich Park . The English have taken the Greenwich meridian as the starting point for longitudes since the observatory was founded in the sev- enteenth century . But ...
... earthly day is complete coincidence , one of three coincidental similarities between the Earth and Mars . The second coincidence is that the obliquity of Mars -- the angle that its axis of rotation makes with a notional line ...
... earthly feud to continue . Elysium leads to Utopia . For the most part he did not explain his nominal reasoning very exactly , but there are exceptions , most notably right in the middle of the map , at the point where dark Sinus Sabeus ...
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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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