Posted by tourdemars to Technology at September 13, 2004 11:40 PM

In the basement of the energy wing of the Engineering Quad, past a long, white tunnel, down two flights of stairs and through a set of double doors, is a postcard with the message, "Greetings from Mars." The postcard hangs on the wall of a lab — the Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Lab (EPPDyL) — in which research is conducted that may help put a man on Mars. And a grant from NASA just moved that research one step closer to completion.