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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... planet to any other . No edges guide the eye or frame the scene . Nowhere says : Start Here . We might begin the story at one of the places that humanity has touched . In 1971 a Russian spacecraft crashed near Hellas , a vast basin in ...
... planet , given enough speed . They are all places where one can learn about Mars , where the trained imagination can almost touch it . But none evokes the whole world . We could cast our imaginations wider , to those who have tried to ...
... 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 . It is the scientists who have ...
... planet Mars , at least in name . By international agreement , craters on Mars are named after people who have studied the planet or evoked it in their creative work— which mostly makes Mars a mausoleum for astronomers , with a few ...
... planet is 360 ° of free association . Thus Solis Lacus is surrounded by areas named for others associated with the sun : Phoenix , Daedalus , and Icarus . The sea of the sirens borders on the sea of the muses , presum- ably because ...
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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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