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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... Polar Lander Mariner 9 The Art of Drawing The Laser Altimeter Part 2 : Histories Meteor 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 ...
... new lander would be set- ting itself down on the Martian surface , giving MOC another man- made landmark to try to pick out . A steeple to navigate by . The Polar Lander I can think of nothing left undone 29 MERT DAVIES'S NET.
... fiction authors , to admire and buy art inspired by planetary exploration , to collect toys and gaudy knickknacks and to party the weekend away . No other scientific event — not even the sequencing of 30 The Polar Lander.
... Polar Lander . A life - sized stand - in sits in a sandbox in the middle of the plaza at JPL , a back- drop for TV reporters from around the world . Like most spacecraft , it looks a little ungainly : three widely spaced round feet ...
... Polar Lander begins making its final preparations , resetting its guidance . systems , prepping one of its cameras . Mars is vast in its sky , only a few thousand miles away , half in shadow , half in sunlight , its surface a range 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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