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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... Crater " A Little Daft on the Subject of the Moon " An Antique Land Maps and Multiple Hypotheses The Artist's Eye Layers 9 13 30 220 37 49 60 73 له لا چل 79 95 112 128 141 Part 3 : Water Malham Mike Carr's Mars Reflections 153 vii Contents.
... moon , turned their telescope in Berlin's Tiergarten to Mars . The planet had been observed before . Its polar caps were known , and so was its change- ability ; the face of Mars varies from minute to minute , due to the Earth's ...
... moon , and gave the resulting geographic features the names of famous explorers — save for the Hourglass Sea , which he renamed the " Atlantic Canale , ” seeing it as a division between Mars's old world and its new . In 1867 Richard ...
... moon , reinforces the Earth's isolation and specialness . And it is this excep- tionalism that drives the current scientific thirst for finding life else- where , for finding a cosmic mainstream of animation , even civilization , in ...
... moons — complex mathematical corsets that hold the scientific representations of those planetary surfaces together . * The other , according to Caltech ( California Institute of Technology ) professor Bruce Murray , is Murray's Caltech ...
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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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