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New Mars is the flagship online magazine for the Mars Society, providing articles, essays and short stories from the most prominent members of the Mars and space communities. Updated regularly, New Mars encourages discussion and debate of important Mars related issues both through its original articles and also through its forums.

Begun in 1998 by Richard Wagner, New Mars has featured authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Mars scientists including Dr. Robert Zubrin. In 2001, the editorship of New Mars was passed on to Adrian Hon who instituted the addition of the forums system and a new look.

Staff

Editor: Adrian Hon »

Adrian Hon is a member of the Mars Society UK Steering Committee and is currently studying for a PhD in Integrative Physiology at Oxford University. You can visit Adrian's personal weblog at mssv.net.

Staff Writer: Stuart Atkinson »

Amateur astronomer and writer Stuart Atkinson is heavily involved in the popularisation of astronomy and space in his native north of England, through giving illustrated talks to community groups and writing articles for many regional newspapers and magazines. Stuart also regularly supplies topical astronomy- and spaceflight-related information for TV and radio stations, and has just begun his own weekly hour-long "Space" slot on his local BBC station, BBC Radio North, which is broadcast across the whole of the north of England.

Stuart also holds regular Science Outreach workshops in schools, which often involves him spending a whole day with a group of students, showing them slides, supervising craft and activity lessons and running Q&A sessions. In what little remains of his spare time, Stuart is also a successful children's science author. To date he has had five astronomy and spaceflight reference titles published, and has contributed articles, photographs and information to many more. Visit Stuart's website.

Staff Writer: Joel McKinnon »

Joel McKinnon has had a deep fascination with the planet Mars since childhood. In December of 1999, he took his 3 yr-old son to a special "Mars Day" at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Mars Society had set up an exhibition to go along with the much anticipated first telemetry returned from NASA's Mars Polar Lander that day. As we all know, MPL never called home. Joel stopped at the Mars Society table and picked up a copy of Zubrin's Case For Mars, devoured it over the next couple of days, and immediately became a member.

In May of 2001, Joel helped to organize a fundraiser for the Mars Society along with the Northern California chapter. Filmmaker James Cameron, Robert Zubrin, Pascal Lee, and Chris McKay spoke at the event which, besides raising well over $100,000, provided the spark for the TransLife Project which represents a huge step forward in the Mars Society's efforts for the cause of human settlement of the red planet.

Joel McKinnon currently works as a User Interface Engineer for a software company in Half Moon Bay, California. Visit Joel's website.

Submitting articles

If you would like to submit an article for consideration to be published on New Mars, please observe the following guidelines:

• Include a short one paragraph description of your article in your email.

• Send your article preferably as plain text in your email, or alternatively as a text file or MS Word attachment. Images should not be included. Do not include manual carriage returns.

• Please spell-check your article.

• Include a brief bio of yourself.

• Send submissions to adrian@newmars.com

Please allow up to a week for an email on the suitability of an article.