Re: Mars / Japan ( and MIT )

From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 04 1999 - 18:40:43 MDT


In a message dated 99-04-04 20:19:04 EDT, jeff@ultraviolet.com (Jeff Taylor)
wrote:

> Do you know if they launched a probe to Mars recently? If I remember
> correctly it would have been in the last 9 months.

That's the "Planet B" mission:

       
<A HREF="http://www.spaceviews.com/1998/07/04a.html">Planet-B Launched on
Mars Mission</A>
       http://www.spaceviews.com/1998/07/04a.html

You can find a complete chronology of Mars exploration at:

      
<A HREF="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/marschro.htm">Chronology
of Mars Exploration</A>
      http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/marschro.htm

While we're talking about Mars . . . this is an interesting little group:

       <A HREF="http://thinkmars.mit.edu/">Think Mars!</A>
       http://thinkmars.mit.edu/

Which makes for nice reading in light of the recent discussion of Mars
colonization here.

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