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• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  Why hasn’t humanity managed to reach new planets in the past 50 years? What factors affect our ability to travel to Mars? Alexander Shaenko, PhD, a science popularizer, answered these and other questions about space exploration as part of his open lecture.

  24.07.2020

• Maps to Rovers: the History of Mars Exploration

  For the past 400 years Mars had been a great source of interest to earth-dwellers, who often speculated on the existence of life on the Red Planet. Our knowledge of the planet changed greatly when the first satellite images were taken in 1965. Today, the number of robots on the surface of Mars makes it fair to say that the planet is inhabited by machines, says Oleg Semyonov, a photographer of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation and an image processing expert. As part of the science festival at the Lermontov Library, he gave a lecture on the history of exploration of Mars, the origins of myths about Martians, and the peculiar specifics of taking photos of the Red Planet.

  08.01.2019

• Journey to the Red Planet: New and Daring Projects for Mars Travel

  In the recent years, the journey to Mars has been a hot topic among scientists and the general public. Back in the 16th century, new lands were discovered by ships sailing the seas; nowadays, we're talking about exploring new places in the Solar system where humans could settle using a different kind of ship. In this article, we'll be looking at the newest engineering and scientific solutions for man's journey to the Red Planet.

  18.09.2017