Site Redesign

We hope you will bear with us while this site is redesigned. To allow us to focus on our primary task: Humans to Mars, the Mars Society is setting up several project groups aimed at specific, real-world tasks that can hasten this outcome.

The website will be a core feature of the way that the project teams communicate with each other and with other teams. Stay tuned for more developments!
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Australian Researcher Discovers Nanobes

In a discovery with implications for the search for life elsewhere in the solar system, Brisbane based researcher Dr Philippa Irwin has discovered what are believed to be life forms at an unprecedently small scale. Called nanobes, they were found in rock samples drilled from 5km below the seabed off the Western Australia.
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Free Public Forum – Mars: Exploring The Red Planet

Presented by the Mars Society Australia and the Department of Geology & Geophysics, Adelaide University. There will be a panel discussion & question time following the presentations. All are welcome!

When: 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm, Friday, 26 October 2001
Where: Mawson Theatre, Adelaide University (enter Victoria Dr., near Gate 8)
Speakers: Dr Carol Stoker, NASA – Designing human missions to Mars

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Graham Mann talks on Mars analog exploration in Australia

At Astrofest in Perth earlier this year, Dr Graham Mann, Project Manager of the MSA’s Starchaser Marsupial Rover gave a public talk on the MSA’s activities in Australia. To experience this audiovisual presentation, you will need Microsoft PowerPoint and an MP3 player, and then click on the links below together: Powerpoint and MP3 audio.
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Conference Update

AMEC 2003
August 22-24
Perth, Western Australia

Don’t forget to register for AMEC 2003 and take advantage of the earlybird registration. Click here to find out more, including a Call for Papers and secure Online Registration. AMEC is the annual Mars Society conference and will bring together researchers, academics and Mars enthusiasts from around the country and internationally, to find out the latest developments on human Mars exploration and Mars analogue research.
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