Catégorie : English
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What could the Mars Colonization Transport (MCT) SpaceX project look like ? (continued)
(Article by Richard Heidmann, English translation by Pierre Brisson) In the second half of 2014, we ventured into the perilous exercise of a « Mars Colonization Transport » (MCT) study, on the basis of the few hints that SpaceX released about its intent (study published (French) on planete-mars.com, the APM website). The major point among the few…
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A first EVA simulation with the APM analog spacesuit
Friday March the 14 th, the Planète Mars association (APM), Mars Society French chapter, conducted its first EVA (Extra vehicular Activity) simulation on the field in the lower part of « Black Cows » clay cliffs in Normandy. Planète Mars association owns now two analog spacesuits elaborated by two association members Armande Zamora and Patrick…
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The Cliff Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV)
On Mars as well as on earth or other telluric planets, cliffs and steep slopes are areas where the ground provide direct access to layers and rocks which have been produced by hundreds of millions years of geological , meteorological and biological (eventually) history. With exploration lengths in the order of 100 m in the…