Placing outer space: an earthly ethnography of other worlds

by Messeri, Lisa

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Title Statements

Full title :Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds / Lisa Messeri.

Summary

La 4e de couverture indique : "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."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (x, 238 p.) : : illustrations, couv. illustrations en coul. ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822361879, 0822361876, 9780822362036, 0822362031
oclc:on1011094935
LC Classification:GN320
Dewey Decimal:523.2/4

Introduction from outer space to outer place -- Narrating Mars in Utah's desert -- Mapping Mars in Silicon Valley -- Visualizing alien worlds -- Inhabiting other Earths -- Conclusion : navigating the infinite cosmos