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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... vast basin in the southern hemisphere , while another landed more deco- rously on the other side of the planet , somewhere in or around the crater Ptolemaus . Two years later another Russian probe struck the surface somewhere near the ...
... vast world in front of me . Not yet . What about beginning on Earth ? Some places here are very like locations there , perhaps close enough to be tied together by some sort of sympathetic story - magic . Maybe Antarctica , where the dri ...
... vast in association . The once imperial cityscape is woven from threads that stretch throughout the world . Across the river to the east sits the squat black - glass bulk of Reuters , information from around the globe splashing into its ...
... vast gulf : Hesper Venus - were we native to that splendor or in Mars , We should see the Globe we groan in , fairest of their evening stars . Could we dream of wars and carnage , craft and madness , lust and spite , Roaring London ...
... ( vast lumps of rock and metal and gas that orbit a fire yet vaster ) has been rewritten . Yes , the Earth that is our world is also a planet . But not all planets are worlds . We no longer need the point of view of a mythical Martian to ...
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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 |