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
The winner of the Mars To Earth Award 2019 is the team of the Polytechnic of Milan with the project REDSTORM: A Multiplayer Mars Simulation with wearable unit for live phisical data display.
Conclusion of our two days of discussion on Mars at our Mars To Earth Conference: www.marstoearth.org Many suggestions for future development with our partners and friends who have attended the conference. We have introduced our new series of VR treadmill Motigravity
This year the European Rover Challenge will take place on September 13-15 on the Kielce University of Technology campus. The registration deadline for teams is 3rd of April. The organisers’ plans also include a conference as well as mentoring and business workshops which are a platform for exchanging information, knowledge and possibilities of developing in…