THE 5th EUROPEAN MARS CONFERENCE November 4th-6th 2005 FROM EARTH TO MARS location: Alexandra House Conference Centre, Wroughton, Swindon, England A weekend of guest talks, panels, debates, workshops and events featuring some of the world's leading experts in Mars exploration and featuring an opportunity to visit the Mar Society's newest Mars Analogue Research Station: Euro-MARS Featured Guests: Charles Cockell - (BAS) Mars Polar Base Heather Couper & Nigel Henbest - Mars: The Inside Story Adam Hawkey - (U of Wolverhampton) - Mobility on Mars Piero Messina - (ESA) TBA Pat Norris - (LogicaCMG) ExoMars Rover Jens Ormo - Wearable Astrobiology Computer Colin Pillinger - Future Robotic Missions Robert Zubrin - Options for Human Mars Missions Mars Society Speakers: Hugh S. Gregory - (USA) Mars Analogue Simulation Trainer Hannes Griebel - (DE) Archimedes Balloon Project Guy Murphy (Australia) - The Outback as a Mars Analogue Arno Welders & Fred Kamphues - The Euro-Mars site in Iceland Artemis Westenberg - (NL) MDRS Operations www.geekalert.nlŪ November 2005

I will set foot into a real Euro-MARS habitat! :) "Whether we become a multi-planet species with unlimited horizons, or are forever confined to Earth will be decided in the twenty-first century amid the vast plains, rugged canyons and lofty mountains of Mars." Sir Arthur C. Clarke