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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... cameras of now - dead spacecraft millions of miles away , and through the minds of the men who designed and controlled those cameras . Links that ran through empty space , carried by the faintest of radio waves , and through the great ...
... cameras in space in order to send back images of the Soviet Union . Then they developed the idea of using film instead of television - experience with spy cameras on balloons showed that the picture quality could be phenomenal — and ...
... camera for it was Robert Leighton , a Caltech physics professor . He asked a geologist he knew on the faculty , Bob Sharp , to help him figure out what the camera might be looking at . Sharp asked his eager young colleague Murray to ...
... camera sent back its image - data — a string of twenty - one grainy pictures covering just 1 percent of the planet's ... cameras ) . Out among the planets there was no risk of finding yourself in a conflict you wanted no part of , or of ...
... cameras send back may be very good , this level of understanding is just not immediately available . When the first images of Mars were sent back by Mariner 4 they were initially unintelligible to Murray and the rest of the imaging team ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |