This page concentrates on resources related to the
Moon, Mars and other planets and their moons. The special
emphasis is on on how life might be found or established
on these bodies.
See also the Multimedia
section for links to a number of sites
that provide tours through the solar system with imagery,
videos, maps, and general information about the planets.
Lunar
News - JSC Lunar materials Curator - "newsletter
forum for facts and opinions about lunar sample
studies, lunar geoscience, and the significance
of the Moon in solar system exploration."
Collaboration of the state of Hawaii, Japan
and others to develop and test "innovative
technologies to support future robotic and
manned exploration of the Moon and Mars"
Space Resources Roundtable meetings at Colorado
School of Mines. The Ninth meeting was held
Oct.2007. Presentation files available for
many of the talks.
MOONMARS
Workshop IAC at University of Applied
Science, Bremen, Germany September 26-28,
2003
Lunar
Architecture-Lunar Base 2002 workshop
held June 10-21,2002 in Nordwijk , The Netherlands.
This was a "student workshop for design
of extra-terrestrial bases for human settlement
of the Moon. The workshop aimed to inspire,
engage and challenge European students to
create design concepts for Lunar Bases for
our return to the Moon."
Return
to the Moon Symposium III 2002 - July
18-20, Houston, Texas. Space Frontiers sponsored
meeting to create a "baseline design
for the lunar base, propose a time line and
begin building an organizational and information
infrastructure that can effectively drive
the project to a successful conclusion: the
establishment of the first permanent lunar
settlemeny."
MoonLITE: The British Moon Lightweight Interior
and Telecommunications Experiment scientific
mission that will launch to the Moon sometime
between 2012 and 2014:
Life to
Mars - privately financed Mars missions (affiliated
with the Mars Society)
Mars500
project - The European Space Agency (ESA)
and the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems
(IBMP) in Moscow are sponsoring this project in
which
6 people will act out a mission to Mars by living
for 520 days inside a replica of a space habitat.
The "flight" takes off on June 3, 2010 at the
IBMP.
Master
thesis in architecture report by Janek Kozicki
in Poland on the design of a Mars base using
inflatable structures. It's not been translated
yet but the graphics are fairly understandable.
Time on Mars:
The Mars day is about 39 minutes longer than an earth
day and the year is about twice as long. It is not
a trivial problem to develop a clock and calendar
for Martian explorers and settlers that maintain a
clear relation to the earth clock/calendar and remain
practical for Martian day to day needs . Here are
some possible solutions:
I. M. Levitt of the Fels Planetarium, The Franklin
Institute
Earth
Weather - links for weather sat & other
remote sensing info.
Space
Weather - links for solar flare/wind &
their effects on earth's ionosphere
Spaceflight
Revolution David Ashford - 2003
Amazon:
USUK
"Examines space travel issues and shows why space tourism will one
day become the single largest business in space, and how astronomy and
environmental science will be transformed by low-cost access making possible
instruments vastly larger than those of today."
