The app ‘Let’s go to Mars’ has been designed for the European project UPWARDS, developed in collaboration with Wild Sphere and Laniakea Management & Communication, and co-funded by FECYT
February 6, 2017
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Author: WildSphere
Through the exploration of different Martian areas, the collection of minerals and pieces of previous missions, the player will have to build the first human colony on the red planet and overcome multiple dangers
GRANADA, January 31st 2017. – Let's go to Mars is an adventure videogame on Martian exploration that is now available with free download for Android and IOS phones and tablets, and in its PC version. The new application is an initiative of the UPWARDS (Understanding Planet Mars With Advanced Remote Sensing Datasets and Synergistic Studies) project. It has been coordinated by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) and developed by its Area of Scientific Culture in collaboration with Wild Sphere and Laniakea Management & Communication, and has been funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) - Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO).
In this scientific adventure and space exploration, the player will have the responsibility to build the first habit module for the imminent arrival of the first human colony to Mars. To achieve the objective, you will have to construct a rover - Perci - that will help you collect Martian samples, to build a vehicle to move around the planet exploring different areas and face many dangers of a planet that is more active than we think.
The Marskipedia, an encyclopedia with data about Mars, will be built as the game progresses. The player can consult it to solve unknowns throughout the game and with which you can get food, water and oxygen to survive in the arid Martian scene.
"Let's go to Mars gathers some of the still unresolved enigmas on Mars that we are researching right now in the UPWARDS project. We want to publicize our work on Mars to society and we believe that with this app we do it in a different and fun way, with some surprises and licenses, since we must not forget that it is a video game", says Miguel Angel Lopez-Valverde, Coordinator of the UPWARDS project.
More info and downloads: http://www.upwards-mars.eu/letsgomars
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About UPWARDS
UPWARDS falls within Horizon 2020, the European Union’s most ambitious research and innovation programme, which aims at excellence in scientific production, industrial leadership and the quest for answers to social challenges.
UPWARDS is a cutting-edge project which, through the cooperation of groups of excellence, will build a comprehensive image of Mars, examining everything from the subsoil to the escape into space. The development of new tools and their application for the study of existing data aims to answer some of the great questions about the red planet, among which stand out the global water cycle, the exchange of methane and other gases between the atmosphere and the interior of Mars, the behaviour of dust storms and the nature of the Martian subsoil. Furthermore, members of UPWARDS will participate in the European ExoMars mission, 2016-2018, developing new analytical tools to help create a scientific framework of reference for future missions to Mars.
The UPWARDS consortium is composed of the Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC, Spain); the Open University (OU, United Kingdom); Institut d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB, Belgium); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France); Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF, Italy); Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van Belgie (ORB, Belgium) and the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain).
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