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Airplanes on Mars? This is not Sci-fi

Washington, USA - Project ARES could become a milestone of the new space age

Not everyone knows that there is an innovative project among the programmes NASA is checking out: project ARES. ARES (Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor) is a project realized by Joel Levine from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. The idea is simple: to sent an airplane to Mars. "The Mars flyer could begin its mission as payload on an Atlas launch vehicle, travel hundreds of...

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Rome, Italy, 05/03/2012 15:22
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