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Building up the exhibition
on the night before
KV |
Robert Zubrin preparing his lecture
KV |
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Robert Zubrin on where the Mars Society stands
today
KV |
Arno Wielders and Artemis Westenberg (Mars Society
Netherlands) each have a quite different interpretation of the
dresscode
EW |
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Piet Smolders: from Russia to Mars
KV |
Lunch at the University restaurant
EW |
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Hans Starlife (Cosmica Network) about his proposal
for a public involvement program
EW |
NASA's Geoff Briggs and Mars Society's Paul Schilte
in conversation with an astronaut
KV |
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Inge Ten Kate (University of Leyden) about
simulation of a Martian environment in a vacuum tank
EW |
Socializing during teabreak
KV |
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Giorgio Gaviraghi (Pianeta Marte) about his
luxury liner approach: to Mars by asteroid
EW |
A 1:50 model of the European Mars Analogue Research
Station (courtesy Klaus Totzek)
KV |
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Franco Ongaro (European Space Agency) about
Europe's future in space
EW |
Radio Rijnmond's Natasja Kuit interviewing astronaut
Andre Kuipers
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Pascale Ehrenfreund (University of Leyden)
on astrobiology
KV |
Geoff Briggs (NASA Ames) talks about drilling on
Mars
KV |
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The Mars Society Netherlands' booth: Kees
Veenenbos-posters and Mars beachballs for sale
EW |
Jules Oyserman (Mars Society Netherlands) announcing
Frans von der Dunk (International Institute of Air and Space Law)
EW |
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Sojourner looking for rocks
KV |
Frank Schubert starting his lecture with an MDRS
videoclip
KV |
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Astronaut Jim Volp (Lunar Explorers Society)
visiting Beagle 2's landing site
EW |
Bill Clancey, captain of crew 5 on the Mars Desert
Research Station
KV |
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Attentive audience at the Forum
auditorium
EW |
Vladimir Pletzer (ESA/Estec) about growing vegetables
at the MDRS (and yet another interpretation of the
dresscode...)
EW |
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Under a red green blue sky...
EW |
Gerard Kuijpers (Mars Society Netherlands) motivating
Martians
EW |
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Spaceship Abel Tasman ready for it's mission
into the Rotterdam harbour area
EW |
Do you think they serve this kind of food on ISS,
Andre?
KV |
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The Extremophiles (Sam Burbank and Frank Schubert)
unplugged in the Port of Rotterdam
KV |
Part of the EMC2 staff
EW |
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Andre Kuipers, astronaut and physician, about
the medical aspects of a trip to Mars
KV |
Viking lander touched down safely on EMC2
soil
KV |
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Charles Frankel shows the preferred location
of Euro-M.A.R.S.
KV |
Inbetween lectures
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Louis Friedman (The Planetary Society) on the
Cosmos 1 Solar Sail mission
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The
Second European Mars Society Convention was held 27-29 September at Erasmus
University in Rotterdam. The images below, made by Kees Veenenbos (KV) and
Edwin Westenberg (EW), recall a wonderful and inspiring long weekend. Special
thanks to all 
