22- 23 ottobre 2010
PIAP Conference Center, Aleje Jerozolimskie 202, Warsaw, Poland

For more info here.

The Call for papers
for the second issue of
Mars Transactions,
the review of the Italian Mars Society,
is now open.
Abstract, title and paper should be submitted within 30th June.
The second issue of the review will be released in August/September.

Mars Society Australia is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the AMEC2010 (Australian Mars Exploration Conference) is now open. The conference will be held at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC) in Melbourne from 9th to 11th July 2010.
The theme for this year's conference will be "Living and Working on the Martian Frontier": anyone interested to attend should submit abstract and full paper within 31st May. Registration to the conference will open shortly.
For more information please visit www.marssociety.org.au.

Saturday 13th March 2010 from 8.30 p.m. at Circolo ARCI Territoriale di Montemagno in Calci, Pisa, there will be Mars Party, an informative event organized by the local chapter of the Italian Mars Society.
The Circolo's restaurant will open the evening with a menu inspired to cuisine for astronauts. The program will start with the screening of the documentary film Roving Mars by George Butler about the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, still exploring the surface of Mars. The party will go on with music and videos relating to space exploration ("Yuri's Night" style).
Throughout the evening information material on the exploration of Mars and the activities of the Mars Society will be available.
All enthusiasts of space exploration can't miss this party of popularization and fun related to the Red Planet. For more information and dinner reservation please contact: fcarbogn@yahoo.com

The XIII Mars Society International Convention will take place on August 5-8, 2010 at the Mariott Hotel, Dayton Ohio.
Highlights of the convention will include the latest results from the Spirit, Opportunity, Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Phoenix missions exploring the Red planet, as well as reports on the latest mission simulation at the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station on Devon Island, 900 miles from the North Pole, and the ninth season of the Mars Desert Research Station. There will also be extensive political discussions and planning meetings on how we can make use of the current fluid political situation to turn NASA’s new space policy into a real exploration initiative that can get humans to Mars in our time. The agenda will also include a wide assortment of panels and debates concerning key issues bearing on Mars exploration and settlement, a banquet with lots of fun entertainment, and plenary addresses from many prominent leaders of the effort to get humans to Mars. Prior conventions have drawn thousands of participants from all over the world and received extensive press coverage in many leading international media. This year’s conference should be the most exciting event to date.
Presentations for the convention are invited dealing with all matters (science, engineering, politics, economics, public policy, etc.) associated with the exploration and settlement of Mars. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent by May 31st 2010 to: The Mars Society, 11111 W. 8th Ave. unit A, Lakewood, CO 80215 or via email to: Marsabstracts@aol.com. (e-mail submission preferred.)
For more info and for the registration to the convention please visit www.marssociety.org

The Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, announced in May and requested by President Barack Obama, after a series of public meetings held in the last months, has presented the results of its work.
On 22 October in Washington, during a press conference, the Final Report with the analysis carried out, which will be later presented at the Congress, was released.  
For further information click here.

               

Download here the full PDF file of the Final Report (8 MB)

The IX European Mars Society Convention, the yearly conference of the European chapters of the Mars Society, was held for the first time in Italy – at Bergamo Congress Center - from 15th to 17th October 2009.

The IX European Mars Society Convention focused on current scientific studies regarding the planet Mars and in particular on the progress of the Red Planet’s exploration program. International scientists, representatives of many aerospace companies and of the European Mars Society chapters took part to the three-day convention.

Among the speakers: Robert Zubrin, President of the US Mars Society; Giovanni Bignami, astrophysicist and space scientist, former president of the Italian Space Agency; Gennaro Russo, responsible for space programs at CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Center); Luigi Fusco of ESA’s Directorate of Earth Observation; Giancarlo Genta, Professor of Machine Design and Construction at Politecnico di Torino; Franco Bernelli of the Department of Aerospace Engineering - Politecnico di Milano; Alberto Della Torre of Carlo Gavazzi Space S.p.a; Giorgio Bianciardi, researcher at the University of Siena; Richard Heidmann, Mateusz Józefowicz and Jürgen Herholzof the French, Polish and German Mars Society.

At the convention the Italian Mars Society presented also the Italian edition of Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars.

To read the abstracts of the conference click here.

To see the photogallery of the conference click here.

With the patronage of:

Association for Space-based Applications and Services	Italian Association of Small and Medium Space Enterprises

The Mars Society is now seeking crew members for the 9th season of field operations at the Mars Desert Research Station, scheduled to run between November 14, 2009 and April 18, 2010. Come and join one of the world's longest-running and most successful space simulation projects!

Interested parties should send a resume to mdrs-applications@marssociety.org, and then fill out the optional online application (which will help speed the review process) before the September 15, 2009 deadline.

This season every crew will participate in a number of projects:

• Collect extremophile samples for an ongoing science research project
• Collect soil samples for an ongoing environmental impact study and therefore biologists with the proper experience of sampling in the field are especially invited to apply for the position of crew biologist. A precise description of the responsibilities of the crew biologists can be found on the application page.
• Medical non-invasive EVA study to measure strain of EVA on everyone’s health using a instrument like a 'Star Trek tricorder' as measuring tool
• Ongoing food study in cooperation with JSC under supervision of Dr. Kim Binsted of the university of Hawaii. All food including snacks at the MDRS will be provided by The Mars Society.

For further info click here.