That is what the Perlan project is trying to explore,
flight in thin air equal to Mars air density,a world glider height record
is a byproduct
"Stefan" wrote in message
...
André Somers wrote:

Today, that is a nice picture of supernova remnant. Cool, but not really
soaring related. Maybe you wanted to refer to
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050323.html instead?

Or click the right arrow under the picture for previous days.

Concerning soaring on Mars: Somewhere on the web site of X-Plane (a flight
sim), they explain very well the difficulties which you would encounter
when trying to fly on Mars.

Stefan