Evan Plant - Weir HBSc is a space exploration enthusiast and a Co-Founder of the Mars Society of Canada.
Though the red planet is much smaller than Earth, it makes up for it with some truly colossal geological features! Enjoy this Mars infographic, which provides a quick glance at some notable differences in scale between the two planets. Click… Read More »The Scale of Mars Infographic
Tim Haltigin is a Senior Mission Scientist at the Canadian Space Agency. On July 29th, 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with him on the subject of Mars. Throughout the following Q&A we touch on a range of subjects… Read More »Mars Sample Return & Coffee Shop Craters: A Conversation With CSA Scientist Tim Haltigin
It’s been just over two months since NASA’s experimental helicopter touched down on the Martian surface, and Ingenuity is still alive and well. Despite having encountered some difficulty during its last transit, the increasingly impressive aircraft has now completed its… Read More »NASA Mars Helicopter Still Going Strong
Your great-grandchild’s first job might be washing dishes in a restaurant on Mars. That may sound oddly mundane, and it should. If you’re a consumer of space exploration news and conversation, then you will no doubt have come across the… Read More »Mars for All
Yesterday evening marked a significant turning point in human spaceflight, with the first operational mission of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program getting underway. CSA Astronaut David Saint-Jacques shared his comments on this historical moment. From Yuri Gagarin’s landmark voyage 59 years… Read More »Canadian Astronaut: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Mission is “the dawn of a new era”
Today Jim Bridenstine showed us under the hood of NASA’s current Moon program, with a candor that cuts through otherwise nebulous public relations rhetoric. Finally, I almost get it. The Artemis program often receives harsh criticism within the space exploration… Read More »NASA Administrator points to the Moon as a political gateway to Mars (opinion)
What will it mean to be human for our descendants? Will children born in the coming centuries find a sense of pride as a member of our kind? Will their place in the ever reaching limbs of the Sapiens family… Read More »An Heirloom to a Civilization
It can be easy to forget, but we are all participants in a shared journey. Our lives are woven into the ancient sequence of events that constitute the history of our species. Crossing the millennia, from the early struggling of… Read More »A Story of Courage
Should Humanity Go To Mars? As the cost of spaceflight tumbles in the wake of maturing reusable launch systems and blooming private space industry, the public Zeitgeist turns its eyes on Mars. Now more than ever, the door to exploring… Read More »Our Greatest Duty