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	Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is the first ever mission to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals, a key step in the human exploration of space.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, initiated in August 2001, is a student-driven, international space collaboration, uniting students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Queensland (UQ) in a quest to determine how humans will respond to the reduced gravity environment of Mars.
		Yet, in preparing for human missions to the surface of Mars, understanding the continuum of gravitational biology, preparing for future experiments aboard the International Space Station Centrifuge Accommodation Module, and examining lower intensity artificial gravity as a countermeasure to microgravity deconditioning, understanding the effects of such loading environments is essential.
	www.marsgravity.org /program/overview.php (699 words)

	Mars Gravity Biosatellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite project is a joint venture of MIT and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
		The project's mission is to investigate the effects of Mars-level gravity on mammals.
		Gravity on Mars is only about 38% as strong as it is on Earth, and the long-term effects of such reduced gravity are unknown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_Gravity_Biosatellite (312 words)

	SPACE.com -- An Inside Look at the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project
		That's the position of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project, a student-led private initiative to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite is an unmatched international effort that pools top-notch technical talent from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
		Lastly, the University of Washington group is responsible for spinning the satellite at the correct rate to produce the Mars artificial gravity field for the mice.
	www.space.com /businesstechnology/technology/mars_biosatellite_020918.html (1175 words)

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		Mars' gravity is three- eighths that of Earth's, and scientists don't know whether that is sufficient to avoid serious health effects, such as bone loss and muscle deterioration, that astronauts have encountered while living in the weightless environments of space stations.
		Mars 2001 Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Alba Patera (Released 22 April 2002) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20020422a.html The science This image, centered near 46.5 N and 119.3 W (240.7 E), is on the northwestern flank of a large, broad shield volcano called Alba Patera.
		It was visible to early astronomers of Mars because it was a distinctive dark spot on a large bright region of the planet.
	www.lyon.edu /projects/marsbugs/2002/20020429.txt (5689 words)

	Two Weeks on Mars
		The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station and the Mars Desert Research Station are two of the Mars Society's flagship scientific projects where scientists are currently researching the logistics and problems involved in the long-term human exploration of Mars.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project is a private initiative to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals, using a spinning spacecraft in low Earth orbit to generate artificial gravity identical to that on Mars.
		Generation Mars is the Mars Society's flagship educational outreach project to the youth.
	www.newmars.com /desert/links.shtml (625 words)

	mars gravity, mars gravity resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite is an unmatched international effort that pools top-notch technical talent from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, the University of Washington in Seattle, and the University of Queensland...
		Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and is commonly referred to as the Red Planet.Mars is slightly pear-shaped, with...
		Mars, (The Bringer of War) is known as the 'Red Planet', because of its distinctive red appearance from Space...
	www.businessintelligences.co.uk /marsgravity (1889 words)

	MarsNews.com :: NewsWire Archive for Mars Gravity Biosatellite
		That's what Mars Society president Robert Zubrin is saying about the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project, which will study the long-term health effects of Martian gravity on mammals.
		The Mars Society said it hopes to send a crew of mice into orbit for nearly two months, allowing the rodents enough time to reproduce a brood that matures into adulthood.
		The Mars Society, a private organization that promotes the exploration and settlement of Mars, officially announced the team today, after having hosted a competition to determine the best concept for a spacecraft to undertake the endeavor.
	www.marsnews.com /newswire/mars_gravity_biosatellite/archive.html (556 words)

	Welcome to MarsFAQs.info! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mars Direct achieves its low cost in two ways: by using only existing technologies, adapted for the specifics of a Mars mission, and by generating rocket fuel for the return mission -- by far the largest mass component, and therefore most costly non-development expense of any Mars mission -- on the surface of Mars.
		Mars' gravity is roughly 1/3 of Earth's; the Moon's is roughly 1/6 of Earth's.
		Additionally, the Mars Society is the initiator of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, which will test the effects of Mars gravity on mice in order to better understand its effects on living creatures.
	www.marsfaqs.info (4271 words)

	uwnews.org \| University of Washington News and Information
		The UW aeronautics and astronautics students will work with fellow students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Queensland in Australia to build the Translife Mars Gravity Biosatellite, a spacecraft capable of carrying the mice in orbit for nearly two months under simulated Martian gravity, then landing them safely back on Earth.
		The UW contingent will build the biosatellite's carrier module, which will provide the power, propulsion, navigation, artificial gravity and other elements necessary to sustain the entire spacecraft during the mission.
		Mars' gravity is three-eighths that of Earth's, and scientists don't know whether that is sufficient to avoid serious health effects, such as bone loss and muscle deterioration, that astronauts have encountered while living in the weightless environments of space stations.
	www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=7660 (774 words)

	Mars Gravity Biosatellite Newsletter 31 Mar 2004 \| SpaceRef Canada - Your Daily Source of Canadian Space News
		Mars Gravity is led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Washington (UW) and the University of Queensland (UQ).
		Mars Gravity team members from MIT attended a science expo for the Cambridge community, open to students and parents of all ages, held at CRLS on Tuesday 9 March.
		Mars generates its "gravity field" of 0.38g m/s^2 by virtue of the attraction generated by its mass (in accordance with Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation).
	www.spaceref.ca /news/viewsr.html?pid=12401 (2069 words)

	One Way to Mars - What Matters
		Despite its success, this program was criticized in some quarters as "a huge expense to bring back a couple of bags of rocks." Many of the early Mars studies (patterned after Apollo) and especially the 1992 "90 day" study by NASA appeared very complex and many times more expensive than Apollo.
		All the truly innovative projects undertaken since 1950 have clearly shown that it is impossible to estimate accurately the schedule and the cost.
		Whether the Mars base is to grow more self-sufficient or whether it is eventually grown in size and numbers is probably beyond our ability to estimate.
	alum.mit.edu /ne/whatmatters/200402/index.html (890 words)

	Mars, Mars, Mars: Further Mars Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mars Project: an animated VR ("virtual reality") tour of a hypothetical Mars of the year 2058, with an extensive human presence on the planet (a related educational CD for school use is available from the site).
		Mars Institute: an independent nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to advance the scientific study and exploration of Mars by conducting high-quality, peer-reviewed research.
		Mars Simulation Laboratory: the Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research team of biologists, chemists, geologists, and physicists working on joint research related to the planet Mars, especially the study of processes on the surface of Mars.
	mars-mars-mars.com /mars-resources.php (2639 words)

	NASA - Mars Mice
		The Biosatellite project is the first investigation conducted at this gravity level, says Wooster.
		Beyond Gravity: In addition to providing a closer analog to partial gravity, the Biosatellite could pave the way for a variety of studies that would be difficult to perform aboard the International Space Station.
		But biosatellites could be positioned in a variety of orbits, exposing them to various kinds and amounts of radiation.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/earth/livingthings/20jan_marsmice.html (1042 words)

	Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program
		That being said, a rotational environment does not quite simulate an actual gravity field: there are a number of secondary effects, all of which are intensified for small radii—gravity gradients across the spacecraft, weight changes with angular movement, and most importantly, Coriolis forces that confuse the vestibular systems within our inner ears.
		Though artificial gravity may enable us to cross vast regions of space, it can no longer help us on the surface of Mars or other new worlds we might explore.
		No solid research currently exists to answer these questions, but they must be answered, for if humans are to travel to Mars, and someday live there, we must know whether they can adapt, and if they do, whether they can ever return again safely to the Earth.
	www.marsgravity.org /science (606 words)

	iCampus: Projects: Distributed Collaboration System for Mars Gravity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite was a student-led project, spread across three universities on two continents.
		Through iCampus support, a subgroup of the Mars Gravity project team created a distributed collaboration system that allowed for easy, real-time access to information, scheduling and task tracking, and face-to-face communications for team members at all three universities.
		Modifying already available software, the Mars Gravity Information Systems group hoped to build on it by creating a software package that ultimately could be used by any project team working across large distances, and applicable to many distributed learning environments.
	icampus.mit.edu /projects/MarsGravity.shtml (221 words)

	Wired News: Of Mice and Martians
		Biosatellite's project leaders, meanwhile, expect the mice to adjust quickly to life inside a centrifuge.
		Biosatellite researchers will also monitor video feeds from within the spacecraft for any signs of illness or behavioral changes in the mice.
		He hopes Biosatellite will rekindle public interest in artificial gravity, and pressure NASA and ESA, the European Space Agency to take the obstacles to interplanetary space travel, especially the health effects of weightlessness, more seriously.
	www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,54079,00.html (947 words)

	Science News for Kids: Feature: Destination Mars
		Because Mars is smaller and less massive than Earth, its gravity is weaker than Earth's.
		Because Mars is farther from the sun than Earth, it gets extremely cold in winter, with temperatures as low as –111 degrees Celsius.
		One possibility is that liquid water in the soil that was once present in the soil combined with salts to produce the stickiness.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20040317/Feature1.asp (1066 words)

	Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Mars Exploration Conference, University of Sydney, July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite project will be of great assistance in defining some of the physiological aspects of the changes.
		In designing the so-called Mars Reference Mission, these authors suggest that a total mission time of 879 days is achievable, with an outward bound time of 150 days, a surface stay of 619 days and a return journey of 110 days.
		The Mars Reference Mission (Hoffman and Kaplan 2000) suggests that several launches be used to deliver equipment to the surface of Mars prior to the arrival of the first crew.
	www.marssociety.org.au /amec2002/14-Rob_Hart_full_paper.htm (2865 words)

	HST Forum 2004: Erika Brown Wagner
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, a joint effort between MIT, the University of Washington and the University of Queensland, aims to provide a new free-flying research platform for gravitational biology research, with a first mission dedicated to studying the effects of Mars-level accelerations (0.38-g) on mammalian physiology.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program plans a launch, as early as mid-2006, of a small low Earth orbit research satellite with a cohort of 15 female BALB/cByJ mice onboard.
		The spacecraft platform will maintain a 35-rpm rotation throughout the mission to generate simulated Martian gravity within the specimen chamber, enabling the first substantial data collection on the chronic effects of 0.38-g exposure.
	hst.mit.edu /forum2004/Abstracts/Wagner.html (468 words)

	Space mission will explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals - MIT News Office
		It won't be the first time mice have flown in space, but it will be the first time mammals of any kind have lived in partial gravity for an extended period.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite will serve as a stepping stone from Earth to Mars, by providing the first ever data on the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals
		A��view inside the Mars Gravity Biosatellite, which��will spin to create artificial gravity at the same level as that on Mars (approximately one-third of that on Earth) in order to be able to study the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/mars-biosatellite.html (498 words)

	News in Science - Space birth a first - 25/09/2002
		The planned launch date for The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project is 2005.
		The gravity found on the surface of Mars is about one-third of that on Earth.
		The biosatellite is one metre in diameter, and will need to spin at about 30 rpm – once every two seconds to obtain a gravity pull similar to that on Mars.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s684891.htm (476 words)

	'Mouse-tronauts' To Pave Way For Men On Mars
		In the wake of plans by President George W Bush to put a man on Mars, and a rival European effort, a £13 million project to launch 15 "mouse-tronauts" has been announced that will provide a stepping stone for the ambitious manned missions.
		The goal of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite programme is to send the mice into near-Earth orbit inside a one-metre space ship that will spin to create artificial gravity to simulate that on Mars.
		The mouse cages will be designed for comfort and protection with room for exercise in the simulated gravity of Mars.
	www.rense.com /general48/mse.htm (416 words)

	An International Artificial Gravity Project - Ex Isle Forums
		A major undertaking in artificial gravity research is being prepared at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, overseen by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
		The Artificial Gravity Project Pilot Study involves test subjects being placed in a six degree head-down bed-rest position which simulates the effects of microgravity on a human body.
		The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is a mission to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals.
	www.exisle.net /mb/index.php?showtopic=22926 (1241 words)

	openDOOR Interview: Erika Wagner SM '02
		As Science Director for The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, she leads a team in developing and carrying out supporting ground experiments, coordinating the science flight manifest, optimizing the payload design to better support research outcomes, and seeking support for the overall mission.
		As a part of the Mars Gravity program, you are studying the effects of Martian gravity on mice.
		With a spin-stabilized artificial gravity spacecraft such as Mars Gravity, it is critical to understand the effects of chronic rotation.
	alum.mit.edu /ne/opendoor/200401/wagner.html (997 words)

	Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Mars Exploration Conference, University of Sydney, July 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Existing MARS are located at Devon Island in northern Canada and in Utah, with additional MARS planned for Iceland and outback Australia.
		The Mars Society's first space mission is the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project This will perform the first substantial research on mammalian physiology and development in Martian gravity by flying a group of mice in low Earth orbit for 7 weeks, spinning to provide them with centrifugal "artificial gravity" at the levels of the Martian surface.
		A founding member in 1998 and the current president of the Mars Society Australia, Guy is also a member of the Mars Society's International Steering Committee and last year attended the US Mars Society Convention at Stanford University.
	www.marssociety.org.au /amec2002/05-Guy_Murphy.htm (379 words)

	The Mars Society - Main Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mars Underground will be screened Friday night, see the updated schedule for time and location.
		The vehicle system works by acquiring CO2 from the Martian atmosphere with a pump (Mars atmosphere is 95% CO2), storing it in liquid form, then sending it through a preheated pellet bed to turn it into hot rocket exhaust to produce thrust for a flight vehicle.
		This study verifies that a permanent settlement can be established early in the course of human Mars exploration by using near-term technologies and local mars resources.
	www.marssociety.org /translife (786 words)

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