Mission at MDRS successfully concluded

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…

Our Team Members at MDRS in May

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…

Mars University Tour Program

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  

End of Opportunity Mission

After  15 years of service   Opportunity rover on Mars stops his mission. Nasa announcing the completion of its mission. After a dust storm in June 2018  the sun radiation has no more reached the solar panesl of the rover. The battery level has dropped and it has no more possible to recover the  rover from…