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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... never this one , the one that we only saw — that we could only ever see — after our envoys left the Earth and went there . Only after our spacecraft reached its orbit could we see Mars for what it is , a planet with a surface area as ...
... craters of Mars were first discovered by space probes , hundreds of astronomers have been thus immortalized . But none of them has a crater more fitting than Airy's . A Point of Warlike Light " I've never been to 12 MAPS.
... never been to Mars , but I 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 ...
... never been seen before — was the besetting problem of early planetary 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 ...
... never made headlines - I doubt he'd want to - but his contri- butions have been vital prerequisites for much of the work that has . But there's still more that Mert would like to do . The mathemat- ics of the control net maximizes its ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |