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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... ideas from our full and complex planet are projected onto the rocks of that simpler , empty one . The ideas discussed are mostly scientific , because it is the scientists who have thought hardest and best about the realities of Mars ...
... idea I have given it the name of Aryn - peak or Aryn- dome , an imaginary point in the Arabian sea - which was long assumed by the Arabic geographers and astronomers as the origin of the terrestrian longitudes . " By the time he was ...
... idea of life on Mars seemed too far - fetched . Observations of the way the planet's brightness and color seemed to change with the seasons made plant life there seem almost certain ; if plants , why not animals and why not intelligence ...
... idea of using film instead of television - experience with spy cameras on balloons showed that the picture quality could be phenomenal — and return- ing the exposed frames to Earth in little canisters . The idea grew into the Corona ...
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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 |