Both of these websites, the Mars Society and The Enterprise Mission, have a lot of information about Mars and the most current news about Mars. By specifically looking at the interviews by Robert Zubrin on the Mars Society website and Richard Hoagland on The Enterprise Mission the difference between the websites becomes clear.
The main focus in Zubrin’s interview is the fact that NASA shouldn’t be looking at the Moon or the space station for the future of space travel, but that they should be bolder and aim to get people on Mars. The idea of this is to not only to see if it can be done but also to see if there was any life on Mars. Zubrin believes that NASA hasn’t done anything really big in the last decade or so and that going to Mars would create a goal and mission for the organization that has been missing for a very long time.
The main focus of Hoagland’s interview is the life on Mars debate. Hoagland believes that there is life on Mars and it is just the matter of when we find it. Obviously the biggest problem that he has with the US Mars programs are the politics that are involved in getting people into space not to mention getting humans into space.
The Enterprise Mission website mostly deals with the issue and debate of life on Mars and how we on earth are supposed to find it. While the Mars Society focuses mainly on the issues of getting humans and maybe a society to Mars, although life on Mars is discussed it is not the main focus of the website. The Mars Society website seems to be more professionally organized and well put together than The Enterprise Mission site. It was very interesting that Mars Society had its mission statement on the home page right where everyone can see. Unlike the Enterprise Mission website the Mars Society website did not have distracting advertisements that brought the focus of the website away from the actual information on the page. All in all both websites are a wealth of information but I believe that Mars Society is a much more interesting and well done website.
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