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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... nature of these channels - they might have been natural , or they might have been artificial . Percival Lowell , his most famous disciple , plumped firmly for the artificial interpretation . Lowell's reasoning went like this . Mars is ...
... nature of astronomy . Coper- nicus's proposal that the Earth was not the center of the solar sys- tem changed the way that astronomers looked at the sky . If the Earth was no longer the fixed center , then it was a wandering star like ...
... nature into the human world . Here's what we're not seeing by around lunchtime on 3 Decem- ber : About ten minutes before it hits the atmosphere , Mars Polar Lander begins making its final preparations , resetting its guidance . systems ...
... that's it . The lan- der is lost . The last tents in the media caravan are folded up just after midnight ; we don't even have the ingenuity , or stamina , to find a bar . Mariner 9 I think it's part of the nature of 36 MAPS.
... nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality . -Ray Bradbury , Mars and the Mind of Man Mars Polar Lander was JPL's thirteenth mission to Mars and its fifth failure . Mariner 3 died with its solar panels pinned to its side ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |