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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... scientists wanting to get some sense of a smaller , drier , colder world . Or Ice- land , where permafrost and lava fight as once they did on Mars . Or the scablands of Washington State , ripped clean by floods like those that scoured ...
... scientists who have thought hardest and best about the realities of Mars . It is the scientists who have fathomed the ages of its rocks , measured its resemblance to the Earth , searched for its missing waters , and -- always - won ...
... scientists might find of dinosaurs , or speculations they might produce about them , without a time machine encounters with dinosaurs were impossible . Similarly , without a space machine , en- counters with Martians were impossible ...
... scientist , not an astronomer . His first glimpse of Mars through a telescope wasn't a childhood epiphany in the backyard . It was a piece of professional work from the Mount Wilson Observatory . Late as it was , though , that first ...
... scientists from other projects who are gathering round the television monitors that show what's happening in mission control , then wander back across the plaza , past the model in the sandbox , to the press room . There's no hurry ...
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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 |