* further development of the Mars Direct mission plan to send humans to Mars

* gives talks and presentations on Mars Direct to schools, colleges, universities, professional bodies and the general public

Mars Direct is a proposal for a manned mission to Mars that is designed to be both cost-effective and possible with current technology.

Their goal to " use local resources, travel light, and live off the land " became the hallmark of Mars Direct.

The Mars Direct proposal includes a component for a Launch Vehicle " Ares ", an Earth Return Vehicle ( ERV ) and a Mars Habitat Unit ( MHU ).

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

Zubrin and Baker pitched Mars Direct at the Marshall Spaceflight Center, where reception was generally positive.

The NASA administration rejected Mars Direct.

Since Mars Direct was initially conceived, it has undergone regular review and development by Zubrin himself, the Mars Society, NASA, Stanford University and others.

Zubrin and Weaver developed a modified version of Mars Direct, called Mars Semi-Direct, in response to some specific criticisms.

The problems associated with long-term weightlessness would be addressed in the same manner as the baseline Mars Direct plan, a tether between the Dragon habitat and the TMI ( Trans-Mars Injection ) stage acting to allow rotation of the craft.

The Mars Society and Stanford studies retain the original 2-vehicle mission profile of Mars Direct, but increase the crew size to six.

This study uses horizontally landing, bent biconic shaped modules, and relies on solar power and chemical propulsion throughout, where Mars Direct and the DRMs used nuclear reactors for surface power and, in the case of the DRMs for propulsion as well.

Mars Direct was featured on a Discovery Channel programs Mars: The Next Frontier in which issues were discussed surrounding NASA funding of the project, and on Mars Underground, where the plan is discussed more in-depth.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Of the remaining planets, only Mars and Saturn have been observed as radio sources, and not very much information is available.

Mars has been observed twice at about 3-cm wave length, and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars.

It is Mars, isn't it??

`` It is Mars ''.

The Turkish word Mart is given after the name of Mars the god.

The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people held a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion for his agricultural and tutelary functions.

The statue, which is colossal and entitled Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker, was not finished till four years after.

* 2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.

This type of anemometer is mostly used for middle-school level instruction which most students make themselves, but a similar device was also flown on Phoenix Mars Lander.

The black circle is the size of the orbit of Mars.

Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

In Indian tradition Fire is also linked to Surya or the Sun and Mangala or Mars, and with the south-east direction.

In the novel Man Plus by Frederick Pohl, an able-bodied astronaut, Roger Torraway, is surgically altered in order to augment his fragile human body and allow him to function in the harsh climate of Mars.

The result is both " monstrous " ( he has bat-like wings, infrared sight, an enhanced brain capable of processing all the new sensory inputs ) and " freeing " ( his cyborg body is more " naturally " made for Mars, as opposed to his all-human colleagues on the Mars mission ).

Torraway's cyborg character is reprised in a 1995 sequel, Mars Plus.

NASA plans to use it in the manned Mars mission.

Scientists of Russian Academy of Sciences are searching for methods of reducing the risk of radiation-induced cancer in preparation for the mission to Mars.

* Manned mission to Mars

* 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.

Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

JPL-run projects include the Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons, the Mars rovers ( including the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and the twin 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers ).

Its mission is to use spectrometers and electronic imagers to detect evidence of past or present water and volcanic activity on Mars.

It was intended to have a companion spacecraft known as Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander, but the lander mission was canceled in May 2000 following the failures of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander in late 1999.

Mariner 4 ( together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964 ) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft, launched on November 28, 1964, intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface.

This mode is only so far being used with the Mars Pathfinders, but may see wider implementation in the ICER standard.

With a flexible mode of operation, the rocket can achieve very high exhaust speeds, and even has the theoretical capability to take a manned rocket to Mars in 39 days.

In Story mode, the player chooses one of four careers ( United Earth League military, Mars Consortium militia, Marauder Pirate Clan, mercenary ) and follows Terminuss single-player storyline, set in the year 2197.

While this was happening on the surface, the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter had gone into safe mode.

Sol 425: Before this remote-sensing-only plan kicked off, the rover team learned that its main communication link, Mars Odyssey, had gone into safe mode and the latest data available was from the afternoon of sol 422.