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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... landed more deco- rously on the other side of the planet , somewhere in or around the crater Ptolemaus . Two years later another Russian probe struck the surface somewhere near the dry valley called Samara . None sent back anything by ...
... landing site . Or Hawaii's volcanoes , near- perfect miniatures of the Martian giants . Or Arizona's Meteor Crater , where earthly geologists first came to grips with what a little bit of asteroid can do to the face of a planet , given ...
... landing site is somewhere on the map in front of me , already charted , if not yet chosen . Back to the maps , then ; in particular to the 1 : 15,000,000 shaded- relief map of the surface published by the United States Geological Survey ...
... landed three spacecraft on the surface of Mars — the two Viking landers in 1976 , and Pathfinder in 1997. The radio sig- nals sent back from those spacecraft revealed their positions very accurately with respect to the fixed - star ...
... landed — was , in fact , wrong . In a week's time he was going to go and tell the American Geophys- ical Union's fall meeting about the mistake and the fact that it had introduced an error of a fraction of a degree into the control ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |