Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a WorldPicador, 4.10.2002 - 304 sivua 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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... missions to every planet save Pluto . He has reshaped quite literally - the way that earthlings see their neigh- bors in space . Davies is the man chiefly responsible for the " control nets " of most of the solar system's planets and ...
... mission , Mariner 4. The man in charge of building a camera for it was Robert Leighton , a Caltech physics professor . He asked a geologist he knew on the faculty , Bob Sharp , to help him figure out what the camera might be looking at ...
... mission . And back down the freeway at the convention center in downtown Pasadena there are hundreds of paying customers turning up for a parallel popular event held by a group called the Planetary Society , a planetary - science fan ...
... mission is a sequence of hundreds of events controlled by thousands of mechanisms and circuits , any one of which could go wrong . Because of all this — and especially because the lab's previous Mars mission , Mars Climate Orbiter ...
... mission ever was the 1997 Mars Pathfinder . Any- one with a Web browser could watch as its limited little rover , Sojourner , fitfully explored the rock garden it had been landed in . It explains why the artists displaying their wares ...
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Histories | 71 |
Water | 151 |
Places | 219 |
Change | 283 |
Acknowledgments | 329 |
Reference Notes and Further Reading | 333 |
Bibliography | 339 |
Index | 347 |
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