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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... possible to imagine some of us going there and experiencing this new part of our human world in the way we've always experienced the old part - from the inside . The fact that humans could feasibly become Martians is the 20 MAPS.
Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton. The fact that humans could feasibly become Martians is the strongest of the links between Mars and the Earth . At the beginning of the space age at the moment when it became ...
... facts of geopolitical life by letting cold warriors see the world over which they were at war from a totally new perspec- tive . After that , he became one of only two people to have played an active role in missions to every planet ...
... 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 control net's definition of ...
... fact that there are no neat new pictures of the surface to be seen puts a damper on it , to be sure - but not too terrible a one . People still come to hear the assembled luminaries talk about the great future of Mars explo- ration ...
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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 |
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World Oliver Morton Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |