Mars Direct — is a proposal for a manned mission to Mars. Proponents of the scheme have claimed it to be both cost effective and that it can be conducted with current technology. It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin… … Wikipedia
Mars Society — Founded August, 1998 Key people Board of Directors: Robert Zubrin (chairman) Scott Horowitz James Heiser Declan O Donnell Officers and Staff: Lucinda Land (Executive Director) Heat … Wikipedia
Mars — This article is about the planet. For other uses, see Mars (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Mars in fiction — Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century. Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet s dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and … Wikipedia
Mars in culture — The planet Mars is named after the Roman god of war Mars. In Babylonian astronomy, the planet was named after Nergal, their deity of fire, war, and destruction, most likely due to the planet s reddish appearance.[1] Whether the Greeks equated… … Wikipedia
Mars landing — View from the NASA Phoenix lander in 2008 A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, unmanned spacecraft, six were successful. There have also been studies for a possible… … Wikipedia
Mars Ocean Hypothesis — The blue region of low topography in the Martian northern hemisphere is hypothesized to be the site of a primordial ocean of liquid water. The Mars Ocean Hypothesis states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of… … Wikipedia
Mars to Stay — Concept for NASA Design Reference Mission Architecture 5.0 (2009) Mars to Stay missions propose astronauts sent to Mars for the first time should stay there indefinitely, both to reduce cost and to ensure permanent settlement of Mars. Among many… … Wikipedia
Mars surface color — Rock strewn surface imaged by Mars Pathfinder The apparent color of the Martian surface enabled humans to distinguish it from other planets early in human history and motivated them to weave fables of war in association with Mars. One of its… … Wikipedia
Solar eclipse — A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is wholly or partially obscured. This can only happen during a new moon, when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction as seen from the Earth. At least two and… … Wikipedia
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