Experiments simulating the isolation of a Mars mission have shown that team spirit is vital.
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Earlier Thursday, President Pranab Mukherjee formally announced the Mars mission during a speech in parliament.
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At the moment a shift in priorities that would lead to a direct Mars mission seems unlikely.
With other students from across the world, they helped plan a Mars mission.
Obama proposed cutting the NASA budget and delaying the timetable for our return to the moon and the Mars mission.
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If I answer, "Well let's use that trajectory anyway, " wouldn't you conclude that I was less than totally committed to the Mars mission?
The key difference in dose for the Mars mission is that dose limits for civilians are ten times lower than for workers, which include astronauts.
"You can imagine that that wouldn't be good during a real Mars mission when there are mission critical tasks planned during the day, " said Prof Basner.
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Even with 50 years of technological advances and assuming adequate cash and political will, a Mars mission would be harder than the ones to the moon.
Some space experts have said that any manned Mars mission using existing rockets probably would need to have a capsule dock with some type of booster in orbit.
The organisers have not stated how much the mission will cost nor how much they need to raise, saying only that it is much cheaper than one would imagine a Mars mission to be.
In the past few weeks the space station has been purposely simulating communications delays and downtimes to see how the crew on a future Mars mission would handle the interruptions, NASA spokesman Josh Byerly said.
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After weeks of fruitless attempts to raise the lander by radio, JPL mission controllers appeared resigned to their second major failure on a Mars mission in three months, following the September loss of the Mars Climate Observer.
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Some of the latest images from NASA's Global Surveyor mapping mission around the red planet are making that abundantly clear, a group of scientists and engineers interested in NASA's Mars mission set for a 2001 launch learned recently.
"With the high resolution Mars Orbiter Camera images, things that look smooth at low resolution appear very rough from high resolution and vice versa, " said David Spencer, mission manager for the Mars 2001 mission.
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey mission helped relay communications to Earth from the missions that would follow.
He is senior research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center and principal investigator on the Mars ARES mission.
Later today, scientists are expected to complete a full color panorama of the landing site of the Mars Phoenix mission.
Joel Levine is senior research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center and principal investigator on the Mars ARES mission proposed some time in the future.
The first wheeled vehicle to land on Mars was during NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, which consisted of a stationary lander and a surface rover called Sojourner.
The Mars Curiosity mission featured a Reddit AMA, a weird web-video featuring a woman in an American flag bikini and a robot head, as well as streaming video of the landing.
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We discussed that question with Melissa Ede, who describes herself as a transgender woman, and has signed up as a contender to be selected for the Mars One mission - "failure isn't in my vocabulary", she told us before the webcast.
As part of our commitment to maintain American leadership in the exploration of Mars beyond the Curiosity mission, NASA will launch the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) orbiter next year.
Before Curiosity, NASA's big rover project was the Mars Exploration Rover Mission: two golf-cart-sized rovers called Spirit and Opportunity.
"You take what Mars gives you, " said Squyres, also the lead scientist on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, which includes Spirit and Opportunity.
The overall goal of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is to use 10 instruments on Curiosity to assess whether areas inside Gale Crater ever offered a habitable environment for microbes.
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