NASA engineers have installed the miniature helicopter on the space agency’s Mars 2020 rover. The Mars Helicopter, nicknamed Scout, will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet.The helicopter is primarily a proof-of-concept experiment. It it fails to take to the air, the scientific goals of the Mars 2020 mission will not be inhibited.…
This week, scientists from NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most remote, arid regions on the planet. Both teams came to hone their research techniques before their missions launch to the Red Planet next summer in search…
NASA is recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for its next Mars rover mission. Starting Tuesday, K-12 students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Mars 2020 Name the Rover essay contest. One grand prize winner will name the rover and be invited to see the spacecraft…
The first round-trip to the Red Planet will see a European orbiter bringing martian samples back to Earth. ESA is opening the door to industry to build the spacecraft that will deliver the precious rocks, dust and gas from Mars – the key to understanding whether life ever existed on our closest planetary neighbour. Credit…
Mars in Virtual Reality at Festival del Volo / Expo in Milan with the new Motivity Treadmill
Today we pay tribute to the men who went to the Moon and also to Luca Parmitano who starts his mission “Beyond” from Baikonur base.
Paolo Guardabasso and Vittorio Netti, Italian Mars Society members, conclude successfully their mission at MDRS in Crew 212. Scope of the mission was to use drones developed for exploration in the Martian environment: two fixed-wing and a quadricopter.During the mission, 12 hectares of land were mapped and 400 images were taken from a height of…
EMC 2019 is organized bye the UK chapter in London, 4,5,6th November 2019. Further information on: https://marssocietyuk.org/events/
During this May, Paolo and Vittorio, two young researchers and members of Italian Mars Society, will participate in a simulation of a mission to Mars that will take place at MDRS (Mars Desert Research Station), an analog habitat built and managed by The Mars Society. Paolo and Vittorio will be part of Crew 212, which will carry out…
Five destinations of prestige for our Mars University Tour: 6th May: Polytechnic of Turin 7h May: Milan, Fast Association: www.fast.mi.it 8th May: Bologna, Opificio Golinelli: https://www.fondazionegolinelli.it 9th May: Rome, Italian Space Agency: www.asi.it 10th May: Naples, Polytechnic of Naples. Robert Zubrin keynote Speaker For info : mte@marsplanet.org