Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a WorldPicador, 4. 10. 2002. - 304 страница 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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... Earth's dinosaurs . They show a canyon so long and deep it's as if the planet's tight skin has swollen and split . They show featureless plains and pockmarked ones , jum- bled hummocky hills and strange creases that swarm together for ...
... Earth's robots . At the time of writing there have been automatic envoys sending data back from Mars ever since . But Pathfinder's story cannot encompass the whole vast world in front of me . Not yet . What about beginning on Earth ...
... Earth , searched for its missing waters , and -- always - won- dered about the life it might be home to . The stories they tell about the planet must have pride of place . But there are artists in here too , and writers , and poets ...
... Earth ; sunset reveals the truth of the Earth's turning , a slip- ping away into night . That turning defines two unique , unmoving points on the surface of the Earth : the poles , the extremes of lati- tude . Add one more point — just ...
... Earth did . In 1830 the German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann von Mädler , famous now mostly for their maps of the moon , turned their telescope in Berlin's Tiergarten to Mars . The planet had been observed before . Its polar caps ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |