
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Road to Mars

Related Topics

Eric Idle

The Rutles

An Alan Smithee Film Burn Hollywood Burn

	Mission to Mars
		Its spacecraft was a near-twin of the Mars Polar Lander.
		Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) was a weather satellite that was designed to monitor the daily and seasonal weather patterns on Mars.
		MGS achievements include a detailed global topographic map of Mars; global models of the Martian crust; evidence that Mars once had a magnetic field which is lacking today; the discovery of hematite deposits; information about the role of wind and dust in the Martian climate; and possible evidence for recent liquid water on Mars.
	athena.cornell.edu /mars_facts/past_missions_90s.html (4447 words)

	The Road to Mars
		The Road to Mars is a science fiction comedy novel by Eric Idle.
		This novel is set some time in the future when the solar system has been colonised, and it follows two stand-up comedians on an interplanetary comedy circuit.
		Their robot seeks to understand the nature of comedy and human laughter; through this character Idle is perhaps examining his own relation to comedy as a former member of Monty Python.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Road_to_Mars.html (71 words)

	Mars Exploration: Features
		Thirty missions to Mars have been mounted by the space agencies of the U.S., Japan, and the former Soviet Union.
		Mars scientists have long desired to have their instruments in a low, circular orbit that affords beneficial lighting conditions and a uniform altitude for photography and other data taking, and Odyssey's aerobraking phase is designed to deliver that.
		As the countdown to Odyssey's arrival at Mars continues, and as new Mars missions for 2003, 2005, 2007 and beyond take shape, the recent difficult past is still foremost in the minds of the design, assembly, test and flight teams.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /spotlight/risksAll.html (2829 words)

	'Road to Mars' Revives Vaudeville in Post-Python Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Readers expecting the comedy to strike like a cream pie thrown by the hand of Zeus may be disappointed.
		Even after the hapless trio gets back on the road to Mars, they continue to stumble into one disaster after another, becoming, through no fault of their own, involved in murder, terrorism, and intrigue, encountering cops and thugs, love interests and children.
		Like the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby films the title evokes, The Road to Mars is more about the journey than the destination.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/road_mars_991004.html (668 words)

	A Road Map To Mars
		When the lander of the spacecraft Pathfinder came to rest on the surface of Mars two years ago, humans once again had panoramic, rust-colored views of the pebbles, rocks and boulders of that body popularly known as the Red Planet.
		In the earliest civilizations, Mars was considered an important heavenly object because of its red color and the peculiar path that it followed across the night sky.
		Even before departure of the first manned Martian expedition, a small chemical processor could be built and sent to Mars, along with solar- or nuclear-power generating equipment, to slowly convert on-planet materials (such as water and carbon dioxide) into oxygen and fuel for surface exploration, life support and the return trip to Earth.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/quest/roadmaptomars.html (1213 words)

	Mars 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars program was a series of Mars unmanned landers and orbiters launched by the Soviet Union in the early 1970s.
		The Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions consisted of identical spacecraft, each with an orbiter and an attached lander; they were the first human artifacts to touch down on Mars.
		Mars 2 lander had a small 4.5 kg Mars 'rover' on board, which would move across the surface on skis while connected to the lander with a 15-meter umbilical.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_2 (792 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Road to Mars: a Post-Modem Novel: Books: Eric Idle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Road to Mars is the second novel by Eric Idle--yes, that Eric Idle, the guy from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
		In addition to The Road to Mars and Monty Python scripts, Eric Idle is the author of the SF/fantasy novel Hello Sailor (1975), the play Pass the Butler (1982), and the children's book The Quite Remarkable Adventures of the Owl and the Pussycat.
		Road to Mars is phenomenal, Oct 10 2003
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375703128/completerev0d-20 (1598 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Britain's rocky road to Mars
		The British-built Mars lander, Beagle 2, is about to leave home on the first leg of its journey to the Red Planet.
		Overall, about two in three Mars missions have failed, so there is a good chance Beagle may never make it to the Martian surface.
		"Mars has fascinated people since 5 or 6,000 years ago when they first noticed there was a strange red object in the sky that went backwards and forwards," he says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2725393.stm (799 words)

	CNN.com - Rover must wait for first Mars drive - Jan. 7, 2004
		The Mars rover has developed some minor problems that will probably delay the start of its trek across the rust-colored landscape to prospect rocks and soil, scientists said Wednesday.
		The rovers, the size of golf carts, were designed to probe Mars for evidence it once might have been a warmer, wetter place conducive to life.
		The postcard shows a vast plain scattered with a wide variety of rocks, including one in the far distance thought to be the size of a Volkswagen.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/01/07/mars.rover.ap (789 words)

	CEM - Fall 1999 Issue - The Road to Mars
		First, there is water (ice) on Mars; some in the polar ice caps (which contain mostly frozen carbon dioxide), most expected to be located beneath the surface in the form of permafrost.
		The Mars Arctic Research Station will serve merely as a preliminary simulation, which is meant to set the groundwork and raise money for what may come in The Mars Society's future.
		At the heart of The Mars Society is one of the most highly influential and significant minds involved in the interplanetary journey to Mars today: Robert Zubrin, head of Pioneer Astronautics in Lakewood, Colorado and founder of The Mars Society.
	cem.colorado.edu /archives/su1999/ian.html (1226 words)

	Mars
		Mars Climate Orbiter - NASA attempted orbiter to Mars (1998)
		Mars 3 - Soviet Mars orbiter and lander (1971)
		Mars 2 - Soviet Mars orbiter and lander (1971)
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /planetary/planets/marspage.html (263 words)

	Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Press Release Images: Spirit
		This image shows the rocky road the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will travel to reach its ultimate destination - the Columbia Hills.
		The name "Mazatzal" comes from a mountain range and rock formation that was deposited around 1.2 billion years ago in the Four Peaks area of Arizona.
		This hazard-avoidance camera image was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on sol 79 after completing a two-location brushing on the rock dubbed "Mazatzal." A coating of fine, dust-like material was successfully removed from targets named "Illinois" (right) and "New York" (left), revealing clean rock underneath.
	marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery/press/spirit/20040326a.html (579 words)

	Going Off-Road on Mars - Columns - Car and DriverJune 2004
		Wright, one of nine scientist-engineers designated to "drive" a Mars Rover, sits each day at a computer console at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and programs his "car" to scoot around the surface of the Red Planet.
		The Rover designers needed something that was straightforward, lightweight, and as durable as possible—roadside assistance is problematic in outer space—so each could be hurled to Mars on one tank of rocket fuel and then survive a brusque landing.
		After viewing photos of the terrain on Mars, batches of vehicle commands are loaded into an earthbound computer.
	www.caranddriver.com /columns/8139/going-off-road-on-mars.html (410 words)

	Technologies on the road to Mars
		One of the first requirements of Aurora has been to identify the key technologies that will be needed to send robots, and then people, to explore the solar system.
		In the coming weeks, ESA technical officers will make their recommendations as to which proposals offer the most promise for further study and development.
		Meanwhile, further study contracts are currently being issued in the context of generic technologies to tackle major problems affecting every space mission under the Aurora programme, e.g.
	www.brightsurf.com /news/dec_02/ESA_news_121602.html (562 words)

	A Bumpy Road to Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the day this past January that President Bush was scheduled to announce a major new space policy, more than 100 scientists jammed into the Grandstand Sports Bar in Montgomery, Texas, to watch the address.
		They had been waiting years for this moment, but even when the president mentioned plans for a Moon base by 2020, to be followed by "human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond," the scientists didn't cheer.
		NASA scientists are also studying whether astronauts might benefit from the drug alendronate, which slows the breakdown of bone tissue and is routinely prescribed to women on Earth with osteoporosis.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2004/june/phenomena.php (835 words)

	The Space Review: Why is Mars so hard? (page 1)
		They will be joined at Mars by Nozomi, a Japanese-built Mars mission launched in 1998 and forced to take the long road to Mars because of thruster problems.
		Mars has been one of the most popular destinations for missions beyond the Earth.
		Four of the seven NASA Mars missions flown since the twin Viking missions—Mars Observer, MCO, MPL, and Deep Space 2—have failed, all due to spacecraft problems of one manner or another.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/23/1 (621 words)

	MEview - The Road to Mars : A Post-Modem Novel
		Their circuit, though, is far from the Berkshires and Broadway; they play the palaces and dives of the outer reaches of the solar system.
		The classic straight man and his never-serious partner, they are making the "road to Mars" while they keep trying for that one steady gig that will make them famous and flush.
		What The Road To Mars is not is a feeble attempt to cash-in on the past and recycle old material in order to make some easy money.
	www.hikeeba.com /meviews/review.php3?id=037540340X (515 words)

	Going Off-Road on Mars - - Car and Driver - June 2004
		The data sent back from the Rovers, analyzing rock density and striations, have led scientists to conclude Mars once had water covering much of it.
		That's more than we could conclude while sitting at the consoles, trying to get a sense of how the Rovers are "driven." Looking at twin Mitsubishi 17-inch monitors while wearing a pair of sophisticated goggles that give a multidimensional albeit fl-and-white view, the Red Planet did not tempt us to visit.
		The Mars mission is supposed to end later this spring, when funding runs out.
	www.caranddriver.com /carnews/8139/going-off-road-on-mars-page2.html (464 words)

	Mars NASA Mission Reports
		In 1964, the United States of America launched Mariner 4 towards Mars in the hope that a handful of pictures returned by the spacecraft might answer some age-old questions...
		Between Mariner 4 and Mars Global Surveyor in 1998, the United States has sent a fleet of robots to Mars with wildly varying degrees of success.
		In Mars, The NASA Mission Reports, the triumphs and tribulations of the American Mars program is gathered together in one place.
	www.countdowncreations.com /misrepmrs.htm (299 words)

	A Bumpy Road to Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harvard University researchers have devised a series of mental tests that can be administered by a hand-held computer and that would help evaluate whether an astronaut is perhaps too fatigued to perform a complex task like a spacewalk.
		In contrast to a flight on a shuttle or even a stint on the space station, a journey to Mars would most likely preclude sending a sick astronaut home for treatment.
		Charles, of the biomedical astronautics group, says if the United States decides to send people to Mars and back, the nation may simply have to live with the reality that the voyage—among the most hazardous undertakings in history—could not possibly be fail-safe.
	www.smithsonianmag.com /issues/2004/june/phenomena.php?page=2 (700 words)

	06.28.2005 - Life detection instrument passes key test on road to Mars
		The MOA will be integrated with the Mars Organic Detector, which is being assembled by scientists directed by Frank Grunthaner at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena together with Jeff Bada's group at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
		Skelley, a graduate student who has been working on amino acid detection with Mathies for five years and on the portable MOA analyzer for the past two years, is hoping to remain with the project as it goes through miniaturization and improvements at JPL over the next seven years in preparation for its long-range mission.
		The Atacama Desert was selected by NASA scientists as one of the key spots to test instruments destined for Mars, primarily because of its oxidizing, acidic soil, which is similar to the rusty red oxidized iron surface of Mars.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/06/28_moaucb.shtml (998 words)

	NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft
		Mars 4, 5, 6, and 7 comprised an associated group of Soviet spacecraft launched towards Mars in July and August of 1973.
		The Mars 7 interplanetary station was intended to be a Mars lander.
		Mars 7 successfully lifted off into an intermediate Earth orbit on a Proton SL-12/D-1-e booster and then launched into a Mars transfer trajectory.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1973-053A (252 words)

	Get to Know MRO: Top 10 Facts About NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is set to arrive at the red planet Friday after a seven-month trip from Earth.
		The largest orbiter sent to Mars in 30 years by NASA, the MRO spacecraft launched on Aug. 12, 2005 with six primary instruments to study the Martian surface, atmosphere and potential underground water and ice deposits.
		Armed with what’s billed as the most powerful camera ever sent to another planet, MRO is expected pick out choice landing spots for future Mars-bound spacecraft and may even solve the mystery of a lost 1999 lander in the process.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/top10_MRO.html (244 words)

	Mars TES NEWS, v. 5, n.4, Mars Missions 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Finally, Mars '96 (four landers and an orbiter) was launched on November 16, 1996.
		Mars '96 was launched aboard a Proton rocket, one of the work-horses of the old Soviet space fleet (see photo).
		Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on November 7, 1996, and is on its way to a September 1997 arrival at Mars...
	tes.la.asu.edu /TESNEWS/5_VOL/No_4/Nov_18.html (373 words)

	CNN.com - Bush unveils vision for moon and beyond - Jan. 15, 2004
		Saying "the desire to explore and understand is part of our character," President Bush Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to return Americans to the moon by 2020 and use the mission as a steppingstone for future manned trips to Mars and beyond.
		The president did not announce a date for a Mars mission, but administration sources said the earliest date for a journey to the red planet would be 2030.
		Bush also made his case for why manned exploration is needed, rather than sending unmanned missions, such as the Mars rover, Spirit, currently sending information back from the red planet.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/space/01/14/bush.space/index.html (1210 words)

	ScienceDaily: Life Detection Instrument Passes Key Test On Road To Mars
		Europe Goes Back To Mars (April 20, 2005) -- European space scientists have strongly recommended a mission equipped with a Rover as the next scientific mission to Mars as part of the European Space Agency's Aurora programme of planetary...
		Phoenix (spacecraft) -- The Phoenix is a planned multi-agency Mars lander, headed by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, under the direction of NASA, scheduled to launch on August 3, 2007.
		Exploration of Mars -- The exploration of Mars has been an important part of the space exploration missions of the Soviet Union (later Russia), the United States, Europe, and Japan.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/06/050629070005.htm (2378 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Road to Mars
		Now you've got the general idea behind The Road to Mars, the zany sci-fi novel by Eric Idle, an original member of the zany comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus.
		The Road to Mars is, in a sense, similar to Idle's Circus days: it's a bit mad-dash, all over the place.
		There is the main story, which is told in something of a flashback style by the narrator, who has his own agenda.
	www.bookpage.com /9909bp/fiction/road_to_mars.html (437 words)

	The Mars Society - Goldin Forsees Astronauts On Mars in 10-20 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Goldin was not available later to explain whether the robotic colonies he envisioned would precede the first Mars landing and, if so, how their development and deployment could fit into his 10-20 year timeframe.
		Aldrin, recalling the hiatus that followed Apollo, said the exploration of Mars should be a sustainable effort, and that will depend on reducing launch costs.
		But Armstrong reminded everyone that the most important step on the road to Mars isn't the last one, but the first.
	www.marssociety.org /bulletins/bulletin_072099_01.asp (1060 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)