NASA Scientists
Find Evidence
for Liquid Water
on Early Mars

Univ. of Michigan
Researchers Detect
Evidence of Lightning
on Mars

The Purpose of the Mars Society is to further the goal of exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to Mars than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first teams on Mars within a decade.

This will be done by: Broad public outreach to instill the vision of pioneering Mars; Support of more aggressive government-funded Mars exploration programs around the world; and Mars exploration conducted on a private basis. Starting small, with hitchhiker payloads on government-funded missions, we intend to use the credibility that such activity will engender to mobilize larger resources that will enable standalone, private robotic missions and ultimately human exploration.