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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... sort of sympathetic story - magic . Maybe Antarctica , where the dri- est , coldest landscapes on Earth are regularly visited by scientists wanting to get some sense of a smaller , drier , colder world . Or Ice- land , where permafrost ...
... sort of latitude all over the two hemispheres . I have been in some of them , and ... well , we won't talk about that . But there was one yet— the biggest , the most blank , so to speak - that I had a hankering after ... " --Marlow in ...
... sort with which London marks houses where people who have made a signif- icant contribution to human happiness once lived . In this case , it was the poet Cecil Day Lewis ; as you climb the hill , you'll pass another one marking the ...
... sort of affair . It is mostly a matter of imagery and fantasy . Mars , though , might make it real - which is why Mars matters . Mars is not an independent world , held together by the memories and meanings of its own inhabitants . But ...
... sort of triangula- tion get different answers . When Mert and I met in 1999 , various inconsistencies had convinced him that one bit of data that he had thought pretty good , and that he had used to calibrate the control net — a two ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |