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Students Aim to Send Time Capsules to Mars by 2017

posted by janrinok on Thursday June 26 2014, @03:43PM   
from the challenge-accepted dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Most people will bury a time capsule, but a group of brilliant young minds will surely find something more exciting to do with it like sending it off to Mars. That's exactly what a team of students from MIT, Duke University, Stanford University and the University of Connecticut plan to do. They're encoding a digital time capsule with audio clips, videos, photos and messages to send to the red planet on a Cubesat-based spacecraft. But, that's just a small part of what they're trying to accomplish (even if the project's called Time Capsule to Mars): they're also using the opportunity to try out a number of new technologies for space travel. After all, in the words of mission director Emily Briere, the project aims "to remind people we go to space to push forward humanity".

Project Website: http://www.timecapsuletomars.com/

• Terraforming Mars is ineveitable Terraforming Mars is ineveitable (Score: 3) by Rune of Doom on Thursday June 26 2014, @05:39PM

  by Rune of Doom (1392) on Thursday June 26 2014, @05:39PM (#60439)

  How long before some well-meaning (or not) group uses a similar approach to deliver a selected group of bacteria, lichen, etc?

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• Re:Terraforming Mars is ineveitable (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @12:21AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @12:21AM (#60653)

  It can't be that great of an environment for mulit-cellular life. Rocks from Earth have hit Mars.

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