Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World

Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World
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A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.The maps of Mars are exquisitely detailed representations of a land as large as all the continents of the earth combined. Yet they are being drawn before any human eye has seen the wonders they contain. In this fascinating mix of science, travel and the history of scientific imagination, Oliver Morton tells the story of the men and women who are mapping a dramatic, mysterious landscape, without having once set foot on its surface. Filled with awe-inspiring detail about volcanoes twice the height of Everest, basins deeper than the Pacific, ‘Mapping Mars’ is a breathtaking account of a world opening up to the imagination.

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Oliver Morton. Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World

Mapping Mars

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I – Maps

Greenwich

A Point of Warlike Light

Mert Davies’s Net

The Polar Lander

Mariner 9

The Art of Drawing

The Laser Altimeter

Part 2 – Histories

Meteor Crater

‘A Little Daft on the Subject of the Moon’

An Antique Land

Maps and Multiple Hypotheses

The Artist’s Eye

Layers

Part 3 – Water

Malham

Mike Carr’s Mars

Reflections

Shorelines

The Ocean Below

‘Common Sense and Uncommon Subtlety’

Part 4 – Places

Buffalo

Putting Together a Place

The Underground

Bob Zubrin’s Frontier

Mapping Martians

Part 5 – Change

Symbols of the Future

Gaia’s Neighbour

The Undiscovere’d Country

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author. Mapping. Mars

References, Notes and Further Reading

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

About the Publisher

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OLIVER MORTON

SCIENCE, IMAGINATION AND

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Malham

Mike Carr’s Mars

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