Tuesday, June 24, 2014

‘Time Capsule On Mars’ Team Hopes To Send a Spacecraft There With Your Messages

‘Time Capsule On Mars’ Team Hopes To Send a Spacecraft There With Your Messages:

Mars photographed with the Mars Global Surveyor.

Mars photographed with the Mars Global Surveyor.
It’s an ambitious goal: land three Cubesats on Mars sometime in the next few years for $25 million. And all this from a student-led team.

But the group, led by Duke University, is dutifully assembling sponsors and potential in-kind contributions from universities and companies to try to reach that goal. So far they have raised more than half a million dollars.

“We were thinking that something was missing,” said Emily Briere, the student team project lead who attends Duke University, explaining how it seemed few Mars missions were being done for the benefit of humanity in general.

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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
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