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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... 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 those people will be , or when they will get ...
... 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 Beer and ...
... imagine Mars , or to convince us that Mars might be worth imagining . Now that our spacecraft have been there we can know it intimately from the out- side , know it as an objective body rather than a subjective experi- ence . We can ...
... imagine him embody- ing decent reliability in a Frank Capra film even before learning that he has worked for the same outfit more than fifty years . But it's hardly been a small - town life . Mert Davies was one of the pioneers of spy ...
... imagine it as a framework of dots linked by straight lines — which came as close as possible to satisfying all the data . Effectively , the final answer said , “ If the ref- erence points you've specified are arranged in just this 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 |