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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... humanity has touched . In 1971 a Russian spacecraft crashed near Hellas , a vast basin in the southern hemisphere , while another landed more deco- rously on the other side of the planet , somewhere in or around the crater Ptolemaus ...
... humanity's creations to travel on its own across the sands of Mars . That was a new begin- ning , the beginning of a grand age for Earth's robots . At the time of writing there have been automatic envoys sending data back from Mars ever ...
... human story on Mars will only start when humans actually get there , when they stand beneath its dusty sky and look around them at its oddly close horizon . I don't know who those people will be , or when they will get there , or where ...
... human happiness once lived . In this case , it was the poet Cecil Day Lewis ; as you climb the hill , you'll pass another one marking the home of Benjamin Waugh , founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ...
... humanity by a single agreed - upon meridian , but surely there are monuments elsewhere . Maybe Ipswich has an Airy Street ; he grew up there and remained fond of the place , arranging for his great transit circle to be made at an ...
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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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