Explore Mars

Explore Mars is an international non-profit group dedicated to awareness and action resulting in human exploration of Mars.

Explore Mars is an international non-profit group dedicated to awareness and action resulting in human exploration of Mars. It was created to advance the goal of sending humans to Mars within the next two decades. To further that goal, it conducts programs and technical challenges to stimulate the development and improvement of technologies that makes human Mars missions more efficient and feasible. In addition, to embed the idea of Mars as a habitable planet, Explore Mars challenges educators to use Mars in the classroom as a tool to teach standard STEM curricula. In 2014, it launched two new technical projects, ExoLance and Time Capsule to Mars, both of which are building momentum. Explore Mars was founded in 2010 by [Artemis Westenberg](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/artemis-westenberg) and [Chris Carberry](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-carberry). It is headquartered in Beverly, M.A.