LINKS

ORGANIZATIONS

Our Parent Organization - Home Page of the Mars Society!

NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY - advocacy group for Human Exploration of Space

THE PLANETARY SOCIETY - international society for supporters of space exploration

MARS SITES

• ASU Mars Thermal Emission Spectrometer
• Cause of the Canyons of Mars, The - canyons of Mars may have been eroded by rivers of silicone dust made from silica dust reacted to an ancient methane atmosphere.
• Chris Anderson's Mars Site - general information, images, martian life, missions, terraforming, conferences, paraphernalia, fiction, nonfiction, societies, and the face.
• Daily Martian Weather Report - starts in Spring, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor achieves mapping orbit.
• Exploring Mars - current news, science, images, history, observation and exploration, missions, and links.
• Ken's Mars Info - pictures, facts, and a quiz.
• Mars - Our Next Step - general Mars information.
• Mars [NASA]
• Mars [Nine Planets]
• Mars Chat
• Mars Group
• Mars in the Mind of Earth - bibliographies on fiction, popular and research books, articles, reports, and various media.
• Mars Introduction
• Mars the Red Planet - exhibit from the National Air and Space Museum.
• Mars Today - current conditions on Mars and their relationship to Earth.
• Mars-Watch.Com - news, interesting Martian facts, and a Mars photo archive.
• Mystic Mars
• NASA's Observatorium: Mars
• New Scientist: Mars - a collection of articles which appeared in the magazine.

Red Zone's Mars Page - with images, chatroom, forum, and more.

• Angry Red Planet - award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson talks about the exploration of Mars and science fiction becoming science fact.
• Caltech Humans to Mars Website - describes how and why we should send humans to Mars.
• Hank Green's Mars Exploration Page - links, drawings, essays, programs, and even a Mars Chat Page.
• Mars - Mars exploration, from Pathfinder to manned landing.
• Mars Society
• Scientific American Frontiers: From Mir to Mars - features an archived Webcast interview between NASA astronaut Andy Thomas on Mir and host Alan Alda on Earth.
• Stanford International Mars Program
• West to Mars - art project to stimulate support for a more aggressive exploration agenda of Mars.

Whole Mars Catalog - information about exploring Mars and the search for life.
 
• Athena 2001 Mars Rover - will scout out areas of Mars' ancient terrain where evidence of life might be preserved, study the composition and properties of materials there, and collect rock and soil samples for return to Earth.
• Center for Mars Exploration - NASA Ames Space Science Division  - historical references to Mars, previous Mars mission information, tools to analyze Mars, current Mars news, and more.
• Global Surveyor (5)
• Live From Mars - tracks NASA's two current missions to the red planet using video, the Internet, and hands-on activities.
• Mars "Virtual" Teacher Training Conference - occurred July 20, 1996 via the Internet and NASA TV.
• Mars 96: Russian Flight Mission
• Mars Academy - join an online collaborative project where students all over the world are designing a manned mission to the Red Planet.
• Mars Direct - supporting a manned Mars mission in the near future.
• Mars Exploration Rationale - by Dr. Michael Duke, of NASA Johnson Space Flight Center.
• Mars Micro-Meteorology Mission - mission concept put forward by scientists at NASA Ames Research Center to address the question of what the atmospheric circulation and climate system is like on Mars.
• Mars Mission Research Center - North Carolina State University - focusing on research and educational technologies necessary for planetary exploration, especially transportation to and from Mars.
• Mars Missions, Year 2000 and Beyond - NASA's home for all the Mars Missions past, present, and future.
• Mars Project Omaha - includes NASA photos taken during Viking Mars missions in 1976.
• Mars Team Online - site for K-12 teachers and students. Live video, photo gallery, teacher resources, and kid's corner.
• Mission to Mars - shares information about the exploration of the Red Planet and gives perspectives on what is involved with the design of a mission.
• Pathfinder (9)
• Planet-B (Nozomi) (2)
• Surveyor 2001
• Surveyor 98 (6)

Viking Mission to Mars - objectives were to obtain high resolution images of the Martian surface, characterize the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface, and search for evidence of life.
 
• Daily Martian Weather Report - starts in Spring, 1998, when Mars Global Surveyor achieves mapping orbit.
• Mars Millennium Project - challenges students across the nation to design a community yet to be imagined, for the planet Mars.
• Mars Project, The - virtual colonization of Mars.
• Mission Mars - see the Martian colony of 2050. You can listen to the Mars anthem, view the colonists, tour the colony, and get your Mars driver's license.
• Planet Mars - site about private sector Mars work, including launch center, spacecraft, mission, and spinoff financing plans.

Scientific American: Bringing Life to Mars - climate models suggest that human beings could transform the Red Planet into a more Earth-like world using current technologies.
 
 
• Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) - program which recovers meteorite specimens from the Antarctic icesheet.
• Is there life on Mars?
• Life on Mars [fas.org] - from the Federation of American Scientists.
• Life on Mars [msss.com]
• Mars and Meteorites
• Mars Meteorites - information on each of the known Mars meteorites and the latest news on possible life on Mars.
• Mars... Once Inhabited? - photos show possible signs of civilization.
• Meteorite Central - site offers meteorite information, educational articles, a mailing list, chat room, and meteorites for sale.
• On the Question of the Mars Meteorite - resource which answers some basic questions about Mars and its meteorites.
• Planet Science: Life on Mars Special
• Scientists Say Life On Mars Is A Possibility
• Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem
• Swapping Rocks - How do meteorites from from get to Earth? Can life survive the journey? An extract from a 1994 issue of Planetary Report.

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