MARS2013 people: Christoph Ragonig, Austria
Daniela Scheer interviewed 12 people behind the MARS2013 simulation, which you’ll be getting to know in the upcoming weeks.
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OEWF photo got picked for Time Magazine
An OEWF photo from this years Dachstein Mars Simulation got picked into Time Magazine (online version) most surprising photos of 2012. “These are excellent news”, says OEWF president Gernot Groemer, “we’re working since several years together with international partners and […]
Mars2013: First Steps
An international team of over sixty volunteers and project partners assembled on Sunday and Monday at the OEWF Mission Control Center in Innsbruck, Austria. Over the course of the two days, the team engaged in a dress rehearsal in preparation […]
Dress Rehearsal for Mars2013 in pictures
That was it for the Dress Rehearsal for Mars2013, the most complex Mars Analog Field Simulation the Austrian Space Forum has ever planned. Between 7th and 10th December 100 volunteers and project partners met in Innsbruck for the big “Dress […]
First Analog Astronaut Training Weekend
Luca Foresta, analog astronaut candidate reports from the 1st training weekend (21-23. Sept. 2012).
Nose Dive into the unknown, Passepartout Sherpa III Airsampler 2 Neil Armstrong
Thursday, 30th of August: Meteorology versus Intuition
On rocky roads with Sherpa I Viktor Hess balloon
Saturday, 1st of September 2012: On rocky roads In 2012 we celebrate “Victor Hess Year”, to honour the Austrian physicist who discovered the cosmic radiation during a balloon flight in 1912. He can be seen as the father of Particle […]
Getting your hands dirty for Mars: The second GeoScience Training in Innsbruck
2n GeoScience Training to prepare for geological field work in Morocco.
Aouda.D, ice princess
A very unusual spectacle, unlike any other which has been seen in the last millions of years, is waiting for future visitors of the Dachstein ice caves in Obertraun, Austria: when artificial light shows the ice formations, also the silver […]
Dachstein Mars Simulation 2012 Mission Report
he Austrian Space Forum performed a Mars Analogue-Field-test between the 27th of April and the 1st of May, together with international partners. The test took place in the Mammoth and Giant ice caves in the Dachstein Area in Austria. Aside […]