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

Author: Oliver Morton
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Category: Popular Science, Solar System: The Sun & Planets, Popular Astronomy & Space
Book Format: Paperback

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.

About Oliver Morton
Oliver Morton is a science writer and journalist. He has written extensively for New Scientist, Nature and a range of National broadsheets.

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SKU BK-9781841156699
Barcode # 9781841156699
Brand Fourth Estate
Artist / Author Oliver Morton
Shipping Weight 0.3400kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 2.200m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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