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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... once spewed out its floodwaters . It let loose Sojourner , the first of 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 ...
... 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 . Near the top ...
... once appropriate and beau- tiful scheme , in which Clio [ muse of poetry and history ] does ancil- lary duty to Urania [ muse of astronomy ] . " To the west were the lands beyond the pillars of Hercules , such as Tharsis , an Iberian ...
... once so devoutly held , that our little globe was the point about which the whole company of heaven was good enough to turn . Indeed , there was much more reason to think that then , than to think this now , for there was at least the ...
... Once all this was done , the whole calculation had to be fed into a computer on punch cards ; the computer then ground through possible solutions until it came to one that made the values of all the variables in the equations consistent ...
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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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