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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... door . After millennia of talking about worlds beyond our own , of heavens and hells and the Isles of the Hes- perides , humanity now has such a world fixed in its sights , solid and sure . For the moment it is a world of 3 INTRODUCTION.
... talk about that . But there was one yet— the biggest , the most blank , so to speak - that I had a hankering after ... " --Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness This page intentionally left blank Greenwich And then , as Part 1: Maps.
... , to be sure - but not too terrible a one . People still come to hear the assembled luminaries talk about the great future of Mars explo- ration . They hear from astronauts and scientists and engineers 35 THE POLAR LANDER.
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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 |