In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting
images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red …

Work on visual images at the intersection of STS and other disciplines is also thriving.
Scholars working in art studies proclaimed a “pictorial turn” in culture (Mitchell, 1994) and …

This paper aims to establish outer space as a mainstream concern of critical geography.
More than half a century after humans first cast their instruments into orbit, contemporary …

This paper considers the concept of light pollution and its connections to moral geographies
of landscape in Britain. The paper aims to provide a greater understanding of light pollution …

This paper addresses the representation of the planet Mars during the 1997 Mars Pathfinder
mission through a content analysis of major US newspapers as well as transcripts of …

This is a study of identity and geopolitics in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin, a series of
adventure comics created from 1929 to 1976. The Tintin comics became increasingly …

This paper considers the imbricated domains of space exploration and Cold War geopolitics
by following the trajectory of the 'Corporal', the world's first guided missile authorised to carry …

Mass media in the late nineteenth century was full of news from Mars. In the wake of
Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 discovery of enigmatic dark, straight lines on the red planet …

For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few
if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead." New …

At the turn of the twentieth century, a popular mania developed around the idea that Mars
was inhabited by intelligent beings. This obsession was originally based in the science of …