University Rover Challenge
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The University Rover Challenge by the Mars Society is a robotics competition for university level students that challenges teams to design and build a rover that would be of use to early explorers on
Group photo from 2017 Mars Society University Rover Challenge at the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah.
Rover pours fuel into a generator in Mars Society University Rover Challenge
Rover climbs hill above Mars Desert Research Station in Mars Society University Rover Challenge
Human mission to Mars
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The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Long-term proposals have includ
Concept for a Mars base, with ice home, pressurized rover, and Mars suits, 2016
Three views of Mars, Hubble Space Telescope, 1997
Inserts depict observation and analysis to find a safe landing site.
Artistic vision of spacecraft providing artificial gravity by spinning (see also Centrifugal force)