Discovering Mars
Shannon Russell
Wed Jan 10, 17, 24, 07:30-09:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Interested in the future of space exploration? Join us as we learn about and discuss the most interesting near-term challenge - Mars. Our understanding of the Red Planet is evolving at breakneck speed. Don't be left behind - check our website for topics after December 15th.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mars/
Contact: mars@mit.ed
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Mars Society -- Mars Base Seminars
Bruce Mackenzie
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Seminars discuss the feasibility of a permanent base on the Martian surface, which may be more cost-effective than a round-trip mission for the crew. Includes a proposal to build a prototype base structure on Earth, perhaps here in Boston.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mars/
Contact: Richard Reifsnyder, mars@mit.edu
Opening a New World
Bruce Mackenzie
Why insist on bringing the first Mars crews back to Earth? Half the total cost of a 500 day surface stay is the return spacecraft and supplies for the return leg. A permanent base would be more cost-effective and achieve greater scientific results.
Wed Jan 10, 01-03:00pm, 33-319
Design a Mars Base
Bruce Mackenzie
Help design a permanent base for Mars, and an inexpensive prototype of it which can be built on Earth. There must be pressurized buildings, greenhouses, and vehicles. Local resources should be used for food and construction wherever possible. (Coincides with "Discovering Mars" presentation.)
Wed Jan 17, 07:30-09:00pm, 4-231
Homesteading Mars and Building with Local Materials
Bruce Mackenzie
The only readily available building materials on Mars are dirt (regolith) and rock. It is easier and takes less equipment to sinter bricks from dirt than to refine metals or plastics. (Coincides with "Discovering Mars" presentation.)
Wed Jan 24, 07:30-09:00pm, 4-231
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Mars Society Meeting
Shannon Russell
Wed Jan 31, 07-08:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The monthly meeting of the International Mars Society will be held this January here at MIT. Anyone interested in Mars in particular or space exploration in general is invited to attend. There will be a dinner trip afterwards.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mars/
Contact: Shannon Russell, 225-7369, sjrussel@mit.edu
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NASA and Mars Exploration: A 20-year Mission Planning
Carole Joppin , Aurelie Bressolette
Thu Feb 1, 07-08:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: none
Come and join us to discover what are the next robotic missions to Mars! We will present NASA's 20-year mission planning for the exploration of Mars.
Contact: Carole Joppin, 31-230, 225-9884, cjoppin@mit.edu
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