Mars flight
Cool - think of all the answers this could provide!
Soon, a small aircraft laden with sensors and a high-speed datalink could be flying over the mountains of Mars - the first aircraft to fly over the terrain of another world.
Called Ares (Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey of Mars), it could, if all goes well, be flying over the Red Planet's southern uplands in just five years' time.
BBC MAy 16, 2003
Meanwhile, 16, 19, and 39 days and counting....