New MarsSkin, Communications Homepages Launched

Project MarsSkin aims to design, produce and test analogue mechanical counter pressure (MCP) space suits which, when worn on Earth, will behave in a near identical fashion to those which may one day be worn on Mars. Communications projects underway include the satellite based SAFMARS (Store and Forward Mars Analogue Messaging System) project, Tools and Applications for Martian Exploration and Research (TAMER) being undertaken by the Software Engineering Research Centre and the helmet systems project at the University of Sydney.