Is it time to catch a rocket to the Red Planet?

 

Mars is filled with mysteries, Volcanoes 75,000 feet tall, huge canyons, 3000 miles across and 6 miles deep, all kinds of interesting features.

 

Awaiting you is some of the greatest scenery in our Solar System, on a world where water once ruled, then vanished into thin air. Where lost microbe empires may still survive underground. We've seen the postcards, and we do wish we were there.

 

Just the thought of being in this new world to see a landscape that no other

person had seen before, I think there are a lot of astronauts that would sign up to that.

 

But don't be fooled. Nothing about going to Mars will be easy. Danger awaits you on this the desolate beauty, and perhaps Martians too.

 

If we find on Mars evidence for a second independent origin of life, that's hugely profound, because it tells us right away that life is common in the Universe.

 

Mars. Invaded by a robot and perhaps soon by an Earthling like you.

 

Would I like o go to Mars? Oh, in a heart beat. Absolutely. If there was anyway for me to go to Mars I wouldn't be screwing around with robots, I wanna go myself. 

 

There has never been a better time to boldly go where no human

has gone before, to follow in the footsteps of our robot pioneers and visit

the planets of the Solar System.