PBS "The Mars Prospect"
Part of a "Quest for Life" website companion to the TV show of the same name, produced in 2005 by NHK, the largest broadcaster in Japan and KCTS/Seattle, this section offers two interactive topics: A Flight to Mars, and Terraforming Timeline.
The Terraforming Information Pages
The Terraforming Information Pages aim to provide ready information in the form of articles, references and links for anybody interested in terraforming and planetary engineering in general. By Martyn Fogg, an internationally recognized research worker in the subject of terraforming and known to all those working in the field. Also includes links to and art images of terraforming.
Ioonos
Ioonos is an internet site based on the subject of space in Europe aimed at young web surfers. It present a array of content designed to entertain, educate and capture the imagination. The objective of the site is place the conquest of space, its technology and its news within the reach of everyone. It aims to explore why and how space is part of everyone’s everyday world.
The Mars Underground
The film, which tells the story of the people fighting to make humans-to-Mars a reality in our time, has been termed the most inspirational movie about Mars ever made. Heavily featuring members of the Mars Society, it presents the entire vision of the human future on Mars starting with the first landing and moving forward all the way to terraforming the planet. Don't miss it! If you know someone you are trying to convince to join the Mars movement, make sure they see it too. Ocule films is the distributor; their sale site was down at the time of this update.
Archimedes Balloon Project web Site
Official Web site of the Archimedes Balloon Project (the link provided is to the English version, in which a portion of the web site is available; the whole site is primarily in German).
To Mars...
Animation by Joseph Game, a.k.a Chogrin, inspired by a beautiful quote by Italian Philosopher Giordano Bruno.
Marspedia.org
Marspedia's mission is to cover everything we will need to know how to do on Mars to set up colonies, as well as related efforts, designs, and business models that may eventually lead there. Construction is underway and you can help!
More Help
This is a link to the Plone user manual, which is the Content Management System used by this web site. It includes areas not covered by this site help, but realize that this manual may not be accurate for this web site when it comes to customizations. For example, this site has a two tier membership (free web site members and paid Mars Society members).
The International Journal of Mars Science and Exploration
The Mars Journal publishes peer-reviewed scholarly papers on line in three general categories -- Mars Science: Observations, data, theory, models, and reviews of scientific literature, Mars Technology: Instruments, spacecraft, missions, tools and techniques, and software, Mars Policy: Exploration strategy, economics, planetary protection, history, and commentary
MARS_DC
The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. This will be done by: 1.Broad public outreach to instill the vision of pioneering Mars. 2.Support of ever more aggressive government funded Mars exploration programs around the world. 3.Conducting Mars exploration on a private basis. Starting small, with hitchhiker payloads on government funded missions, we intend to use the credibility that such activity will engender to mobilize larger resources that will enable stand-alone private robotic missions and ultimately human exploration. Web Page: http://chapters.marssociety.org/usa/dc/
Space Lifestyle Magazine
Magazine launched in the summer of 2007, with the goal to "deliver objective, honest, accurate and timely feature articles on the lives and happenings of those in the space sector." Digital publication, freely accessible on line, but formatted as a print magazine.
Support Project Archimedes
Archimedes, a technically advanced scientific project, does require significant funding. Your support would be much appreciated by the German Mars Society (Mars Society Deutschland e.V.), in order to help them continue research and development. This link leads to their donations page.
April Fools Mars mapping
For April Fools Day, Google decide to do their part by expanding their Google Earth into Mars territory. Who said we won't be going to Mars soon?
Da Vinci - Mars Design
Ludovic Celle is working on storyboards for the Red, Green, Blue Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. The blog also contains other Mars art. (French)
Archi Espace
Archi-Espace is a site dedicated to space, and expecially martian, architecture, in partnership with the society Planète Mars (the French Mars Society). On this site, you will find a large number of martian base concepts, with text, images, movies in 3D, and models. You will also find pressurized rover projects and real life experiences like that at the MDRS simulated martian habitat in the Utah desert. This site will grow a little every month with student projects (Strate College Designer, Paris Val de Seine architecture school) as well as with our own projects.
The Space Show
The Space Show is an audio program produced and hosted by Dr. David Livingston, a business consultant specializing in outer space commerce. It focuses on timely and important issues influencing the development of outer-space commerce and space tourism, as well as other related subjects of interest to us all. It runs live at schduled times and is podcasted and past programs are accessible at the site.
MarsNews.com
A newswire site for Mars related news. The news collection produced by our own Gerry Williams and available on this site likely will contain all stories in MarsNews, but the site does offer interesting features like a comprehensive set of category listings, a database that goes back to 1997, a forum, space events calendar, etc.
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New Mars forum
by Jean Lagarde — 2008-02-23 00:29
This site is funded by the Mars Society. The site has many sections but the most active is its forum, which this links directly points to.
exploreMarsnow.org
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-24 00:18
Very well made and detailed interactive model of a Mars habitat. Requires Macromedia flash player plugin. This site is an evolution of design work that had been conducted for the Society's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station.
Images of Mars processed by Olivier de Goursac
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-09-27 22:20
These images, suitable for computer wallpaper use, were processed by Olivier de Goursac, a participant in the Viking and Pathfinder missions.
Martian Soil Blog
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-07-04 11:16
"A daily blog dedicated to Mars, bringing the exploration of the Red Planet closer to enthusiasts and little green men alike." The site has its ups and downs of activity. As of 3 Jul 2006 there was no entry since 12 May 2006.
MarsQuest Online
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-07-04 11:16
This site allows you to virtually explore Mars, using real data from the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Global Surbeyor. You can virtually fly over a satellite view or drive a rover. The data has not been updated since 2004 but it is still a very fun and educational site.
Martian Renderings
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-24 02:03
Emmy Award nominee Kees Veenenbos makes these astounding renderings of Mars using mainly digital elevation models of the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Follow the links to specific galleries, or to Mars Renderings.
The MarsDrive Consortium
by Jean Lagarde — 2008-06-28 10:21
The MarsDrive Consortium (MDC) is a group engaged in bringing together like- minded individuals, groups and businesses for the purpose of raising the large scale public support and necessary resources for an actual human mission to Mars within the next 2 decades. Close collaborator with The Mars Society.
Red Colony
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-24 01:47
We are an international symposium, spanning students and professionals, scientists and laymen alike, all with a desire to colonize and terraform Mars. Our visitors have the opportunity to submit ideas in these evolving fields, knowing they are literally writing the books on Mars. Their articles are discussed by the scientific community until the most comprehensive, efficient and realistic Plan is developed and enacted.
The Mars Movie Guide
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-09-27 22:20
Gerry Williams, a member of the San Diego chapter and film enthusiast, maintains a fantastic list of movies related to Mars. If you're near San Diego, you may want to stop by the chapter's Mars Movie Night, held one Friday a month.
Space Frontier Foundation - Mars Headquarters
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-07-24 00:29
The Mars exploration branch of the Space Frontier Foundation. Mostly featuring the Haughton-Mars Project.
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-23 23:01
Dedicated to expanding the role of human exploration and development of space. We also seek to educate the public in such a way as to attain this goal.
Translife / Mars Gravity Biosatellite
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-24 02:54
The Mars Gravity Biosatellite project is a joint venture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Queensland, and MIT. It began as a Mars Society initiative called Translife in 2001. The project's mission is to investigate the effects of Mars-level gravity on mammals by studying mice in Earth orbit in an artificial gravity (i.e. spinning) satellite.
Mars Exploration Rovers NASA status
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-11-24 02:44
Official NASA site with regular updates to the status of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, including images, press releases, etc.
Mars Global Surveyor Official NASA Site
by Jean Lagarde — 2006-07-23 22:50
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter is the oldest Mars spacecraft currently in operation, and it has been studying the red planet for nearly a decade. This link leads to the official NASA site for the orbiter.
