Website Review Assignment

National Geographic Series: "Is It Real?" Episode: "Life on Mars?"

Chris Owens
Assignment #1
February 4, 2007

The first website we were supposed to review is about The Mars Society. The purpose of this society is to further the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet. This will be done by 1) Broad public outreach to instill the vision of pioneering Mars. 2) Support of ever more aggressive government funded Mars exploration programs around the world. 3) Conducting Mars exploration on a private basis.
The Mars Society website contained a lot of articles that all were related to Mars. An article that caught my eye was the one written by Robert Zubrin. He believes that we should be less worried about the moon and future space stations and more focused on finding ways colonize Mars. He discusses in his article why Mars is better for colonizing than the moon. We have everything we need to create air and water on the red planet.
The second website is about a non-profit research project supported by open community involvement and donations called The Enterprise Mission. It is an expanding research program seeking the facts behind the discovery in the last 4 years of "intelligently-designed, ancient artificial structures" on additional NASA and Soviet photos, not only of Mars... but of the Moon...
The "launching" of the Enterprise phase of this 13-year investigation took place on March 21, 1996 - with the announcement at the Washington D.C.'s National Press Club, by Richard Hoagland and a team of multi-disciplinary engineers and scientists, of a significantly expanded and broadened Mars Mission/Enterprise Mission escalation of the search. I read an article by Richard Hoagland, which talked about life on Mars. Hoagland has made some bold statements which are controversial. He claims that the formation of the land on Mars that looks like a face is not a nature made product. He also believes that there are pyramids built by martians that have artifacts and information inside them. In the article Hoagland says that we have found fossil like features on Mars.