Feb 3, 2016 | Mars, Media Publications, Read
Durban – The South African scientist hoping for a one-way ticket to Mars will get her chance to prove she has the right stuff later this year.
In the meanwhile, Adriana Marais is keeping herself busy training for the Two Oceans ultra marathon in March, and as a senior Kung Fu student with the Chinese Martial Arts Centre. She was one of 100 candidates worldwide short-listed for the Mars One project, which aims to establish a human settlement on the red planet. In September, they are due to undergo a three-week selection process at an as yet unknown location. The aim is to whittle them down to the final 24.
Dec 10, 2015 | Mars, Read
“A one-way nature simplifies the mission,” says a quantum biology researcher, Adriana Marais. As one of the Mars 100, she says her family has been supportive of her endeavour. Her father is even writing a science fiction novel about the landing of a female protagonist, based on Marais’s venture, on a far-off planet. “If the mission doesn’t go off, they would probably be partially relieved,” she says.
Nov 20, 2015 | Mars, Read
WILL earthlings be packing for Mars in just 10 years’ time?
“Watch this space,” said November Tuesday Rostrum guest speaker Adriana Marais. She gave a mind blowing but highly plausible presentation on the Mars One project, of her hopes for a one-way ticket to the red planet and of her aspirations of being among the first people to colonise it in 2026.
Nov 18, 2015 | Mars, Read
Meet Adriana Marais and Alexandra Doyle. These two young South African women are among 100 candidates internationally who have been shortlisted to travel to Mars to set up the red planet’s first human colony. ‘I don’t see a possible move to Mars as giving up something, or as a sacrifice,’ Alexandra says. ‘I see it as a privilege – the chance to live one lifetime on two worlds.’ When the privately-funded Dutch company Mars One put out the call for candidates in 2013, they were deluged with applications. More than 200 000 people internationally were willing to give up life on Earth forever to be part of the first human settlement on Mars.
Oct 26, 2015 | Mars, Watch
Join us for another inspiring Tuesday on Afternoon Express as we are exploring the cosmos. After the recent discovery where NASA found evidence of water on Mars, our little red neighbour has become the hottest topic in World News. Joining us in the loft today is theoretical physicist, Adriana Marais.
Sep 14, 2015 | Mars, Read
I want to be one of the first citizens of Mars.
As a researcher in the field of quantum biology, and more recently in a field I would like to call quantum astrobiology, I spend a lot of time inside a huge picture of reality that extends from the tiny scales where atoms exist, out to the edges of the universe billions of light years away, on the quest to understanding life.
