Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds
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Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds
（Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices）
Duke University Press, 2016
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-229) and index
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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 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. From Outer Space to Outer Place 1
1. Narrating Mars in Utah's Desert 25
2. Mapping Mars in Silicon Valley 71
3. Visualizing Alien Worlds 111
4. Inhabiting Other Earths 149
Conclusion. Navigating the Infinite Cosmos 189
Notes 197
References 211
Index 231
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