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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... exploration . At that time there were many blank spaces on the Earth , and when I saw one that looked particularly inviting on a map ( but they all look that ) I would put my finger on it and say , ' When I grow up I will go there . The ...
... 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 physics professor . He asked a geologist he knew on the faculty , Bob Sharp ...
... exploration . The practical problem is that unlike an earthly surveyor , you can't wander around the surface of an alien planet making measure- ments at leisure . Your only viewpoint is that of a spacecraft flying past the surface at ...
... exploring this one : Once unencumbered by security clearances and the knowledge they bring , he was free to travel to meetings all around the world , and did so with Louise and alacrity . He's never made headlines - I doubt he'd want to ...
... science fiction authors , to admire and buy art inspired by planetary exploration , to collect toys and gaudy knickknacks and to party the weekend away . No other scientific event — not even the sequencing of 30 The Polar Lander.
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |