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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... again . Preludes , not beginnings . Twenty years later , the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration's ( NASA ) little Pathfinder , cocooned in airbags , bounced to a halt in the rocky fields where Ares Vallis had 2 INTRODUCTION.
... ( NASA ) , as part of which it would become America's main center for planetary exploration . By 1961 , JPL was planning NASA's first Mars mission , Mariner 4. The man in charge of building a camera for it was Robert Leighton , a Caltech ...
... NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter demonstrated what happens when things don't go well . When reporting its thruster firings the spacecraft's software used metric measurements ( Newton seconds ) . The software on Earth thought that these ...
... NASA and beyond , distinguished visitors from other research cen- ters , the families and friends of people involved in the mission . And back down the freeway at the convention center in downtown Pasadena there are hundreds of paying ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |