Students aim to send a time capsule to Mars by 2017
03 Jul 2014 • engadget.comMost people will bury a time capsule, but a group of brilliant young minds will surely find something more exciting to do with it – like sending it off to Mars. That’s exactly what a team of students from MIT, Duke University, Stanford University and the University of Connecticut plan to do. They’re encoding a digital time capsule with audio clips, videos, photos and messages to send to the red planet on a Cubesat-based spacecraft. But, that’s just a small part of what they’re trying to accomplish (even if the project’s called Time Capsule to Mars): they’re also using the opportunity to try out a number of new technologies for space travel.
Coolest college assignment ever. How amazing is it that something like this is even possible as a college assignment in the first place?