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Mars Society Press Release
Thanks to the hard work of the Mars Society, there's now a great news and information resource on the Red Planet freely available worldwide. MarsNews.com has many features, but it's most impressive is the "NewsWire," a frequently-updated database of Mars news stories from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, BBC, Discovery Channel, New Mars, and many other sources. Not only do new stories appear daily on the MarsNews.com front page, but a searchable archive is also available with stories going all the way back to 1996! In addition to news, MarsNews.com is a content-rich website, with information and pictures from recent Mars missions like Mars Pathfinder, current missions such as Mars Global Surveyor and Surveyor '98, and future missions like Mars Express, sample return missions, and the Mars airplane. In addition there is information on the "Life on Mars" debate, technologies in development that will get us to Mars, and the prospects of a humans to Mars mission. More information is being added all the time.
MarsNews.com is a great website for students and teachers, space enthusiasts, and serious researchers alike. The website has already won two awards in its first week of operation: The Astrobiology Web's "Stellar Website" award, and SpaceViews' "Space Site of the Week" award. Both are now proudly displayed on the home page of Mars News. Traffic to the site is dense -- there were over 5,000 "page views" in the first two weeks of operation, which is phenomenal considering the site wasn't yet listed in any major search engine.
MarsNews.com is the brainchild of Jim Burk, a professional website designer who is also the President of the Seattle chapter of the Mars Society. Burk designed the custom software that runs the NewsWire's backend database and was instrumental in filling the site with information and pictures. To maintain the website, a volunteer group composed of Burk and other Mars Society members regularly patrol the Internet in search of the latest news and information.
Check it out at www.marsnews.com.
Posted by jburk at April 25, 1999 12:43 PM
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