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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... possible markers to define this prime meridian were suggested - islands , mountains , artifacts like the Great Pyramid or the Temple in Jerusalem . But a meridian defined by an observatory seemed best . In 1884 , at a conference in ...
... possible position for observation ; it was at its nearest to the sun ( a situation called perihelion ) and at its nearest to the Earth ( a situa- tion called opposition ) , just thirty - five million miles away . Impres- sive new ...
... possible to imagine some of us going there and experiencing this new part of our human world in the way we've always experienced the old part - from the inside . The fact that humans could feasibly become Martians is the 20 MAPS.
... possible uses of an artificial satellite . He applied to join the team more or less on the spot . The think tank soon became independent from Douglas and , as the RAND Corporation , it went on to play a major role in defin- ing ...
... possible representation of the planet . Since the seventeenth century , when Willebrord Snell of Leiden first refined the procedure into something like its modern form , earthbound mapmakers have turned what can be seen into what can be ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |