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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... seen , Mars is like the Earth . It's not very like the Earth . Its gravity is weak , its atmosphere thin , its surface sealess , its soil poisonous , its sunlight deadly in its levels of ultraviolet , its climate beyond frigid . It ...
... seen from orbit . ( At the Pentagon he had analyzed Russian pictures of the far side of the moon to see whether they might be fakes . ) When Mariner 4's television camera sent back its image - data — a string of twenty - one grainy ...
... 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 . Your only ...
... seen . Lacking any proper sightings , checks on the control net using the landers ' locations have had to be indirect . From matching the fea- tures that the landers see on the horizon around them with features visible in pictures taken ...
... seen before . Such a sight would close some sort of cognitive circuit ; it would make Mars a distant mirror in which we could see something of ourselves reflected . It would thicken the connections between our planets and draw Mars ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |