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Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries
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Название: Mars: From
Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries Автор: Markus
Hotakainen Издание: Springer Год: 2008 Страниц: 256 Формат: pdf Размер: 13 MB ЯзыкАнглийский
This book tells the
story of Mars since the dawn of mankind's curiosity for celestial wonders and
the ancient beliefs through the revolution in our concepts of the cosmos around
us in the 1600's to the present day knowledge and beyond, all the way to the
futuristic visions of science fiction and terraformed Mars with conditions
suitable to Earth life. It also tells the story of Martian "life”: pluralistic
view of the 1700's with all the bodies of the Solar System being thought to be
inhabited, certainty on the existence of Martian civilization in the end of the
1800's and the beginning of the 1900's based on the observations of canals, the
sudden "death” of Mars in the 1960's due to the images sent back by the first
space probes, and the resurrection in the 1990's and 2000's due to the
controversial findings in Martian meteorite ALH84001 and ever-increasing
evidence for the watery and possibly more temperate past of Mars. All this is
told in a very readable form with no math nor terminology only the experts in
the field are familiar with. The up-to-date text is supported by both
informative imagery and a simple, but inspiring layout with some special
features like a "flip movie” of the rotation of Mars and a very illustrative
comparison of the distances of the Martian satellites versus the distance of
our Moon from their respective parent planets.