The four-day event is being held in concert with the Southern California Commercial Spaceflight Initiative. The Mars Society Conference will bring together prominent scientists, policymakers, entrepreneurs, journalists and space advocates to discuss the significance of the latest scientific discoveries, technologicaladv-ances and political-economic-social developments that could impact on plans for the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars. Conference highlights will include the latest exploratory results from the Curiosity and InSight missions and the Mars Express, ExoMars Trace Gas, Mars Reconnaissance and MAVEN orbiters. In addition,there will be updates on the upcoming ExoMars and Mars 2020 missions and a recount of the Opportunity rover’s many accomplishments on the Red Planet.
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