The European Space Agency’s announcement of their future Mars exploration plans failed to edge NASA’s seemingly indestructable rovers out of the spotlight, but they still attracted the attention of our forum regulars, along with their current probe to Titan. Read more about this and other topics in this week’s Ares Express.
Filed under: Editorials on February 8th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
With the recent announcement of Project Constellation as part of President Bush’s new space initiative, now is a good time to examine past attempts at building a successor to the Space Shuttle, so that we may maintain a fresh perspective. Written by James Burk of the Project Constellation weblog.
Filed under: Articles on February 5th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, the Hubble Space Telescope and space hotels - they’re all in this week’s issue of Ares Express, New Mars’ guide to the latest happenings on our forums and Mars news across the Internet.
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This week’s issue of Ares Express looks at the continuing Spirit and Opportunity saga, with stories on the Mars Express spacecraft, the Mars Society’s new policy paper in response to the Bush initiative and more.
Filed under: Editorials on January 25th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Introducing the first issue of Ares Express, a weekly newsletter with the latest happenings on the New Mars forums and links to Mars news across the Internet.
Filed under: Editorials on January 16th, 2004 | 6 Comments »
In less than 24 hours, if all goes well, the Beagle 2 probe will touch down on Mars and then send a callsign four hours later. Mission controllers in the UK are all anticipating the signal, but they acknowledge that the mission’s success will depend much on pure luck. Let’s hope that they get it.
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Over the next few days and weeks, we will be keeping a close watch on the status of the British Beagle 2 lander. The latest news is that the probe has successfully separated from the Mars Express spacecraft and is now on its descent to Mars.
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With the Mars Express Beagle 2 lander set to touch down on the red planet in a little over a week’s time, Stuart Atkinson writes a letter to the lander that has the potential to change our understanding of Mars and our place in the universe.
Filed under: Articles on December 16th, 2003 | 2 Comments »
All too often, authors neglect the ’science’ in science fiction, but in Mars Frontier, Robert Stockman has written detailed appendices for each part of the novel. In this first appendix, Stockman discusses the technology and logistics of the journey from Earth to Mars.
Filed under: Fiction on September 25th, 2003 | 1 Comment »
Have we lost our dream for seeing humans on Mars? Following the historic close approach of Mars in August, Stuart Atkinson eloquently expresses what many Mars exploration advocates must be feeling. “I’ve been giving almost the same talk, showing almost the same slides, detailing almost the same damned timeline for over a decade, to schools, community organisations, night school classes, and nothing has changed; we haven’t moved forwards an inch.” But he still thinks that there’s hope, if only we have the courage to declare that life is the reason why we wish to go to Mars.
Filed under: Articles on September 17th, 2003 | 3 Comments »