Placing Outer Space : An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds /

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"In Placing Outer Space, Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astron...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Messeri, Lisa, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA > National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sternwarte
Mars > Planet, Motiv
Visualisierung
Extrasolarer Planet
Astronomie
Planetensystem
Weltraumforschung
Planets.
Extrasolar planets.
Ethnology.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
Exoplanetes.
Planetes.
Ethnologie.
USA
Chile
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In Placing Outer Space, Lisa Messeri traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored. Making planets into places is central to the daily practices and professional identities of the astronomers, geologists, and computer scientists Messeri studies. She takes readers to the Mars Desert Research Station and a NASA research center to discuss ways scientists experience and map Mars. At a Chilean observatory and in MIT's labs she describes how they discover exoplanets and envision what it would be like to inhabit them. Today's planetary science reveals the universe as densely inhabited by evocative worlds, which in turn tells us more about Earth, ourselves, and our place in the universe"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780822373919

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