To get to Mars, everyone involved in the Mars Society is pitching in. From simply becoming a financial member, to actually getting involved in a project team, there is room for everyone to help.
The major challenge for our members at the moment is coming up with a concept for an operational analog pressurised rover. This exciting undertaking has been prompted by a competition being run by the Mars Society in the USA.
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For all your Mars News, check out www.marsnews.com, a new award-winning site that a Mars Society member runs! A compilation of thousands of news stories from hundreds of sources, marsnews.com plans to be there for all Mars News.
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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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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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Members of the Mars Society Australia can now also subscribe to Space Frontier News. This is an excellent bimonthly 12 page journal updating the latest space related events in Australia and includes a regular Mars Society column. Annual subscription costs $17.
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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 |
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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The Convener of the 3rd Australian Mars Exploration Conference announced an extended deadline for papers presented for this years conference. The new deadline is the 30th of June 2003. Click here to find out more.
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Over the following months Australia will be hosting a diverse range of conferences relating to space and planetary sciences.
Click here for a full conference calendar.
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