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| Manchester sets up new Mars Society branch | |
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| The latest branch of the Mars Society has been founded in Manchester. | |
| The organisation, which supports research into human exploration and settlement on Mars, has 42 branches around the world. | The organisation, which supports research into human exploration and settlement on Mars, has 42 branches around the world. |
| The new branch has been set up during a surge of interest in the red planet, where scientists recently found evidence of liquid water. | The new branch has been set up during a surge of interest in the red planet, where scientists recently found evidence of liquid water. |
| It will work with organisations including the University of Manchester to advance research into Mars. | It will work with organisations including the University of Manchester to advance research into Mars. |
| Lucinda Offer, executive director of the US-based Mars Society, visited the city to chair the inauguration of the new chapter at the Sharp Project offices in Newton Heath earlier. | Lucinda Offer, executive director of the US-based Mars Society, visited the city to chair the inauguration of the new chapter at the Sharp Project offices in Newton Heath earlier. |
| She said: "One of the new chapter's jobs will be to engage the great universities, in Manchester and beyond, in activities such as the Rover Challenge, where universities [around the world] compete for a prize to create the best robotic Mars rover." | She said: "One of the new chapter's jobs will be to engage the great universities, in Manchester and beyond, in activities such as the Rover Challenge, where universities [around the world] compete for a prize to create the best robotic Mars rover." |
| The new chapter, which will host regular meetings across the city, also hopes to develop a bid to host the European Mars Conference in Manchester in 2017. | The new chapter, which will host regular meetings across the city, also hopes to develop a bid to host the European Mars Conference in Manchester in 2017. |