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In the News (Wed 2 Dec 09)

  
  MarsNews.com :: NewsWire for the New Frontier
The Mars Society is currently taking applications from the general public, educators, and students to develop the skills necessary to thrive in a regime analogous to The Red Planet.
Call for Volunteers: The Mars Society is requesting volunteers to participate as members of the crew of the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah during extended simulations of human Mars exploration operations.
Carberry is the political director of the Mars Society, a nonprofit group that pushes relentlessly for human exploration and settlement of the red planet.
www.marsnews.com   (1011 words)

  
  MARS IS COMING...Ares, Ra, Cain, Osiris, Cairo, 2012, angels, 2Thessalonians, Mercury, Nibiru, Nebu, Titans, Thoth, ...
Mars and Mercury began to drift closer to the Earth than planned, and worse, their mutual gravity began to synchronize with the Earth and with one another.
Velikovsky maintained that Mars and the other planet (which he thought was Venus) had collided near the Earth around 687 BC, sending one of the pair closer to the Sun and boosting Mars into its current orbit.
MARS TO COME Computer projections of planetary orbits show that Mars and Mercury have been in their current orbits for no more than the last 1.5% of the history of our Solar System.
petragrail.tripod.com /mars.html   (3436 words)

  
 NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Mars: Kid's Eye View   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Mars is one of the brightest objects in the
Mars is a little like Earth, only smaller, drier and colder.
solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mars&Display=Kids   (466 words)

  
 MOVING MARS CLOSER TO THE SUN (28-Mar-2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It would be easier to terraform Mars if it were at the earth's distance from the sun, either opposite the earth or perhaps in a Trojan orbit relative to that of the earth.
Moving Mars with rockets would take unpleasantly long - hundreds of millions of years according to some preliminary calculations if it were feasible at all.
In connection with the idea of moving the earth a billion years from now to get farther from an increasingly hot sun, Korycanski, Laughlin and Adams propose using a Kuiper belt asteroid to carry energy and angular momentum.
www-formal.stanford.edu /jmc/future/mars.html   (657 words)

  
 Mars Exploration Rover Mission: The Mission
Moving safely from rock to rock or location to location is a major challenge because of the communication time delay between Earth and Mars, which is about 20 minutes on average.
Unlike a remote controlled car, the drivers of rovers on Mars cannot instantly see what is happening to a rover at any given moment and they cannot send quick commands to prevent the rover from running into a rock or falling off of a cliff.
The rover is expected to move over a given distance, precisely position itself with respect to a target, and deploy its instruments to take close-up pictures and analyze the minerals or elements of rocks and soil.
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov /mission/tl_surface_nav.html   (304 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Spacewatch Friday: Reverse Course! Mars Motion Soon to be Backward
Astronomers call this backward motion "retrograde." The shift comes as Mars is gradually becoming visible in the late evening, too, just in time for the historic close approach to Earth that will occur in late August.
Mars is already rising before midnight, blazing in the southeast skies like a pale red or sometimes yellowish-orange lantern.
Right now, both Earth and Mars are moving in the same direction around the Sun, but the slower one - Mars - appears to move backwards compared to the faster one, the Earth.
www.space.com /spacewatch/mars_retrograde_030725.html   (904 words)

  
 Astronomy on Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mars has an axial tilt of 25.2°, quite close to the value of 23.45° for Earth, and thus Mars has seasons of spring, summer, autumn, winter as Earth does (if the axial tilt was 0° there would be no seasons).
Thus, for temperatures on Mars, spring is approximately the mirror image of summer and autumn is approximately the mirror image of winter, and if Mars had a circular orbit the maximum and minimum temperatures would occur a couple of days after the summer and winter solstices rather than about one month after as on Earth.
Mars Global Surveyor imaged the Earth and Moon on May 8, 2003 13:00 UTC, very close to maximum angular elongation from the Sun and at a distance of 0.930 AU from Mars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astronomy_on_Mars   (3013 words)

  
 Mars Book Reviews
Wells' Mars is rooted in the scientific knowledge of his time; the result is an eerily plausible novel that continues to fascinate and inspire.
John Carter, Burroughs' protagonist, engages in endless unlikely adventures on "Barsoom" (as Mars is known to its natives), rescuing a never-ending pantheon of damsels in distress, slaying chimeric creatures, and thwarting the plans of indigenous mad scientists.
Greg Bear's deliciously complex and scenic "Moving Mars" is a fully realized exploration of humanity's expansion into space, written with a cyberpunk's visionary panache, a solid footing in real-world science, and a narrative arc that never falters.
mactonnies.com /marsbooks.html   (887 words)

  
 Mars' Moons
The image of Mars is to scale, as are the orbital sizes of the moons.
He noted that it appeared to be moving with Mars as opposed to staying fixed relative the the stellar background.
Mars' moons are probably not native to Mars.
filer.case.edu /~sjr16/advanced/mars_moons.html   (592 words)

  
 Atheist Ethicist: Moving to Mars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
On Mars (for example) one-way communication takes between five minutes (when Mars is closest to the Earth, to nearly half an hour (when Mars is furthest from the Earth).
They will note the frontier families of the past who moved far away from the comforts of the big city – the friends and family they left behind, to start a brand new life far away on their own.
If would-be Mars settlers were to spend their own money and risk their own lives, then it would be impossible to raise any objections against them.
atheistethicist.blogspot.com /2006/11/moving-to-mars.html   (1738 words)

  
 Letters From Mars: Reviews
Moving Mars has nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, Martian lifeforms, and so on; hard science fiction junkies will be pleased with Bear's treatment of all of these things, and I was pleased with their integration in a noteworthy story.
Moving Mars has many undeniable parallels to Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (but Bear is less preachy!); in some ways, the moon and Mars reduce to the same battleground.
Mars Direct is an inexpensive plan, costing anywhere from $5 to $30 billion, depending on the configuration, which is clearly far more likely to happen than the $450 billion NASA plan of the early 1990s.
www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/mars.htm   (5783 words)

  
 Mars Exploration: All About Mars: Mars in the Night Sky: Mars Retrograde
If you were to look up in the eastern sky at the same time each night and note where Mars appears to be compared to the constellations of stars, you would find the planet a little farther east with each viewing.
That is, Mars appears to move from west to east from one night to the next.
Then, as we move farther along our curved orbit and see the planet from a different angle, the illusion will disappear and we will once again see Mars move in a straight line.
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov /allabout/nightsky/nightsky04.html   (593 words)

  
 Approaching Mars
Between now and August, Mars will brighten until it "blazes forth against the dark background of space with a splendor that outshines Sirius and rivals the giant Jupiter himself." Astronomer Percival Lowell, who famously mapped the canals of Mars, wrote those words to describe the planet during a similar close encounter in the 19th century.
Mars and the sun are on opposite sides of the sky.
Mars and Earth go around the sun like runners on a track: fast-moving Earth on the inside lane and slower-moving Mars on the outside.
science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/18jun_approachingmars.htm   (916 words)

  
 Mars in the Mind of Earth: Novels - Full List
The conquests of the Martian despot continue, until he comes up against a dictaor on the Saturn moons as vicious as he is, whiel the exiled king of Earth hides on Pluto.
A great deal of fighting ensues, until Mars is flooded and their civilization wrecked.
We find out mars has visited the earth in the past, and that there are asteroids of pure gold in space.
www.marsearth.com /novels/interw.html   (508 words)

  
 Kathleen Ann Goonan reviews MOVING MARS
MOVING MARS, Greg Bear's new novel, may seem, at the outset, to contain an utterly outrageous and unbelievable event.
Mars is sparsely populated, and most Martians seem to spend their time in as provincial a fashion as those on Earth believe, including going to barn dances.
MOVING MARS is a grand, deep look at the possibilities which pure thought might accomplish, once we better understand the universe, and ourselves.
www.goonan.com /mars.html   (2141 words)

  
 The Mars Society — The Mars Society
On May 25, 2008 at 11:36 UTC (landing time subject to change), the Mars Phoenix lander is scheduled to descend to the Martian polar surface to begin an historic search for water and indications that Mars may have been suitable for life.
October 3, 2007 - Call for Volunteers: The Mars Society is requesting volunteers to participate as members of the crew of the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah during extended simulations of human Mars exploration operations.
The Mars Society's Second Annual University Rover Challenge (URC) is seeking the best and brightest college teams to design and build the next generation of Mars rovers for a competition at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in southern Utah.
www.marssociety.org   (720 words)

  
 Motions of Mars
Mars reached a stationary point on 07/29/03 and was in opposition on 08/28/03; it's now moving in a retrograde direction.
Mars was also moving to the east initially, but reached its first stationary point on 07/29/03 and then started moving to the west.
If you move to 20 feet, which is twice that distance, the bulb will appear only 25% as bright - in other words, it takes four bulbs at a distance of 20 feet to equal one bulb at a distance of 10 feet.
www.ifa.hawaii.edu /faculty/barnes/ASTR110L_F03/marsmotion.html   (2491 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Moving Mars: English Books: Greg Bear,Sharon Williams
In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars.
To say that Moving Mars is a good book would qualify as the largest understatement of my life.
Initially, Moving Mars is a ponderous story of a young woman's sojourn into adulthood and her career.
www.amazon.de /Moving-Mars-Greg-Bear/dp/1561005444   (1025 words)

  
 Close Encounters of a Red Kind: Retrograde Motion of Mars
Mars is closer and so it is easier to detect it's changing motion against the background stars more easily than with a more distant planet.
During June and July Mars was gliding swiftly eastward through the stars of the constellation Aquarius.
Mars appears to be moving the opposite direction, a motion called retrograde motion.
starryskies.com /The_sky/events/mars/opposition05.html   (760 words)

  
 Moving Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moving Mars is a science fiction novel written by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-8125-2480-2).
The main strength of Moving Mars is the development of Casseia Mujumdar, the main character.
Casseia Mujumdar is the narrator and is old when she writes her account of Mars' past in the form of a diary.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moving_Mars   (217 words)

  
 Moving Mars
Rebelling against her conservative family, the colonists who occupy Mars, Casseia takes part in the brewing revolution sparked by student protests in the year 2171.
Meanwhile, her love life is in a very precarious situation, with her beloved Charles Franklin's seeking to merge his mind with the most advanced artificial mind.
"Moving Mars is an accomplished, thoroughly mature novel that should be placed at the top of anyone's 'to be read' stack."
ereads.com /book.asp?bookid=313   (478 words)

  
 CHAOS AND MOVING MARS TO A BETTER CLIMATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The specific idea of this article is to move the planet Mars to an orbit at the same distance from the sun as the earth's orbit.
The scheme is to use a tame asteroid that makes several thousand encounters with Mars, Venus and Jupiter to exchange energy and angular momentum among these planets, thus moving Mars to the desired orbit.
Moving Mars will take some tens of thousands of years, but not millions of years.
www-formal.stanford.edu /pub/jmc/future/mars/mars.html   (197 words)

  
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 Moving Towards Mars
Just a few years ago the very phrase "manned mission to Mars" was anathema to most everyone, but after a few crummy movies and with an operational International Space Station, it seems that people's minds are opening once more.
Being the dedicated advocate of manned Mars exploration that I am, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a monstrous fear in the pit of my stomach.
The fear was that with all this sudden talk, seemingly out of nowhere, the media was going to overinflate the whole business (as it so often does) and the sight of astronauts weakened after months in microgravity would suddenly burst the bubble.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/destiny_space/78178   (379 words)

  
 Close encounters with Mars
Contrary to some reports, Mars will not be as big as the full moon nor will it cast shadows.
There will be lots of "Mars parties" organized this week to celebrate the moment of closest approach.
In fact, Mars is going to become easier to see during the weeks ahead simply because it rises earlier and earlier each day.
science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2003/25aug_closeencounter.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Moving Mars: Livres en anglais: Greg Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In this 1995 Nebula Award-winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth-colony of Mars.
While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it.
Beginning as a coming-of-age story, with Casseia encountering corruption as well as courage and determination in a student uprising, the narrative then becomes a fine, taut and realistic political novel, as Casseia travels to Earth as part of an ambassadorial retinue, and later serves as second in leader Ti Sandra's push for Martian unification.
www.amazon.fr /Moving-Mars-Greg-Bear/dp/0812524802   (529 words)

  
 A European Mars Moving Ahead
Under the umbrella of the European Space Agency, at least 25 companies from 15 European countries are building hardware or software for the spacecraft, or otherwise contributing their expertise; and more than 200 scientists from research institutes in all ESA member states and beyond are contributing towards the scientific payload.
ESA's Mars Express mission consists of an orbiter, carrying seven scientific experiments, and a lander element, Beagle 2.
Mars Express will provide unique investigations that will contribute to an understanding of many of the unknowns about Mars.
www.spacedaily.com /news/marsexpress-01a.html   (1000 words)

  
 Moving Mars Summary / Study Guide
The novel traces the maturation of Casseia, paralleled by that of a politically united Mars.
Woven in also is a telling of the gradual and essential unification of science with politics, embodied in the characters of Casseia and Charles.
Bear manages to create a believable future Mars by accompanying dialogue and action with physical descriptions extrapolated from current scientific knowledge of the planet, and by lacing the plot by...
www.enotes.com /moving-mars-qn/59742   (128 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Race to Mars: Track the Robots En Route
Three spacecraft are well on their way to Mars.
The brown line shows the path of Earth, which is moving in the same general direction -- counterclockwise around the Sun when viewed from above -- while the spacecraft veer outward toward Mars.
Mars is moving counterclockwise in this view and will be at the end of the blue line when Spirit gets there.
www.space.com /missionlaunches/race_to_mars_maps.html   (287 words)

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