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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... swarm together for thousands of miles , like the grain in a piece of timber . They show features perfectly earthlike and features so strange the Earth has no names for them . There's a world's worth of scientific Introduction.
... 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 dishes that picked up those signals , and ...
... miles away and in many directions much closer - but it's vast in association . The once imperial cityscape is woven from threads that stretch throughout the world . Across the river to the east sits the squat black - glass bulk of ...
... miles away . Impres- sive new telescopes all over the world were turned to Mars and revealed its features in more detail than ever before . The maps based on observations made that year were almost all better than Proc- tor's ; and the ...
... the geometrical center of a small , nicely rounded crater in the middle of a larger crater thirty- five miles across . They called that larger crater Airy . Mert Davies's Net There is a passage in the oeuvre 21 A POINT OF WARLIKE LIGHT.
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |