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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... 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- dered about the life it ...
... thought and expenditure from the day he went up to Cambridge University to more or less the day he died , throw- ing no note away , delighting in doing his own double - entry book- keeping . He applied a similar thoroughness to his ...
... thought that these reports were in pound ( thrust ) seconds , a smaller unit , and thus underestimated the effects of the thruster firings . This meant that JPL's model of the Climate Orbiter's position became increasingly inaccurate ...
... thought pretty good , and that he had used to calibrate the control net — a two - decade - old estimate of where exactly in the rubble- strewn plains of Chryse Viking 1 had landed — was , in fact , wrong . In a week's time he was going ...
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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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