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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... planets must become worlds , a process accelerated by the Galilean discovery that , like the Earth , the planets were round and had features . In this context it was quite normal to believe that one of the things that the planets had in ...
... planets were " mere masses of matter " -places without purpose , frightening voids . With minds , they were worlds ... planets ( vast lumps of rock and metal and gas that orbit a fire yet vaster ) has been rewritten . Yes , the Earth ...
... 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 and our imaginations are expanding our world . This ...
... planets and 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 ...
... planets were something worth devoting a lifetime's study to . When Murray looked at Mars through the world - famous sixty ... planetary exploration . By 1961 , JPL was planning NASA's first Mars mission , Mariner 4. The man in charge of ...
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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 |