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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... Mars . That was a new begin- ning , the beginning of a grand age 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 ...
... Mars ; Mars illuminates them . It's common to imagine that the human story on Mars will only start when humans actually get there , when they stand beneath its dusty sky and look around them at its oddly close horizon . I don't know who ...
... Mars , but I imagine it to be quite lovely . " " -Cosmo Kramer in Seinfeld ( " The Pilot ( 1 ) , " written by Larry David ) Mars had an internationally agreed prime meridian before the Earth did . In 1830 the German astronomers Wilhelm ...
... Mars into a rectangular Mercator projection , he declined to name the fea- tures he recorded , but did single out ... Mars's old world and its new . In 1867 Richard Proctor , an Englishman who wrote popular astronomy books , pro- duced a ...
... Mars , Schiaparelli placed Solis Lacus , the lake of the sun , from which all dawns begin . Do not think for a moment that this means a good classical educa- tion will help you find your way around Mars . For a start , due to the way ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |