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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... less . Its great mountains stand alone ; there are no sweeping ranges , no Rockies or Alps or Andes . The rivers are long gone . There are no continents and there are no oceans , and thus there are no shores . Given patience ...
... less the day he died , throw- ing no note away , delighting in doing his own double - entry book- keeping . He applied a similar thoroughness to his stewardship over the Royal Greenwich Observatory , bringing to its workings little ...
... less than the currently accepted figure . That this length of time is so similar to the length of an earthly day is complete coincidence , one of three coincidental similarities between the Earth and Mars . The second coincidence is ...
... less pure fancy . This made Martians fascinating but not important , rather in the way of dinosaurs — another turn - of - the - century craze . Whatever evi- dence scientists might find of dinosaurs , or speculations they might produce ...
... less constrained . The breakdown of the equation between planets and worlds works both ways . If there can now be planets that are not worlds , then there can be worlds that spread beyond planets — and ours is doing so . Our spacecraft ...
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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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