Mars has incredible landscapes
for the explorer. Future explorers will
launch mountaineering, polar,
caving, and desert expeditions across the
surface of Mars and they will plan descents
into some of the most expansive canyons in
the Solar System. Mars has ice caps almost
as large as Antarctica and
its extinct volcanoes are higher than Mount Everest.
Although the planet is smaller than the Earth,
its total land area for exploration is equal
to the area of the Earth's continents combined,
because it has no oceans. Mars is the only
planet in our Solar System that has environments
analogous to those on Earth that will one
day be host to epic human expeditions.
The Association of Mars
Explorers is an association for explorers
of Mars or the Mars-analog environments on
Earth. It has members from across the world,
including the US, Australia, Europe, Asia
and South America. In the Association they
can share and discuss their experiences -
scientific, logistic and human factors -
with those who have similar experiences.
The Association holds a dinner once every
two years and holds other events.
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