Mission to Mars

ESA's Mars Express Mission – Europe on Its Way to Mars

Introduction In the broad context of planetary science, Mars represents an important transition between the outer volatile-rich, more oxidised regions of the accretion zone of the terrestrial bodies (asteroid belt) and the inner, more refractory and less oxidised regions from which Earth, Venus and Mercury accreted. Its size, the degree of internal activity, the age of its surface features, and...

The first viking mission to Mars.

HERRO Mission to Mars Using Telerobotic Surface Exploration from Orbit

In a previous paper, we outlined a strategy for human exploration that combines elements of both human spaceflight and robotic exploration in a cost-effective strategy for exploration that could be adapted to multiple targets in the solar system [1, 2]. This Human Exploration using Real-time Robotic Operations (HERRO) [1] approach differs from the traditional view of human exploration, in that ...

Mission to Mars: An agile release planning game

Mission to Mars is an educational board game illustrating the planning process in iterative software development; it brings together concepts such as: iteration (sprint), backlog, story cards and storypoints, velocity (productivity), impact of defects, technical debt, and risks. The game is a low-cost, Monopoly-style board game, played in groups of 2 to 4 students, where some factors such as un...

Mission to Mars. Reliable method for liquid solutions diagnostics

*Correspondence: Vladimir F. Krapivin, Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Informatics Department, Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vvedensky sq. 1, Moscow 141190, Russia e-mail: [email protected] Manned mission to Mars aims at solving many problems associated with operational diagnostics of liquid solutions (including drinking water), medical issues...