The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the leader in robotic Mars Exploration. Explore the wonders of Mars with JPL's help, by visiting the Mars Exploration home page. You will find fascinating information in sections called: Extreme Planet, Follow the Water, Mars Rocks, Life on Mars , The Martian Mystique and Just for Kids.

Mars, Earth's outer neighbor, is the fourth planet from the Sun. Mars' bright appearance and reddish color stand out in the night sky. Impressive surface features such as enormous volcanoes and valleys are frequently obscured by huge dust storms. Interior & Surface Atmosphere Moons & Rings Planetary Facts Myth & Culture Discover Mars Latest News From Mars Space Missions Image Archives Tour Mars!

Home News & Status Mission Overview MARCI (Color Images) PMIRR (Global Weather) Mars Climate Orbiter Fact Sheet Just the facts... Mission Science What will we learn Spacecraft Images November 10, 1999 MCO Failure Board Releases Report Wide-ranging managerial and technical actions are underway at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, in response to the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter ...

The Mars Academy is proud to host the Mars Society Education Site NEW: Education Guide on Mars Settlement Design. Interactive Features Special Projects - Orbit Finder: Plot and calculate orbits between any two given celestial bodies. - Astronaut Quiz: Do you have what it takes to go to Mars - Interactive Mission Design Page: Choose propulsion systems, calculate masses and more! - Trajectory ...

June 3, 2002, Status: Learn more about the recent announcement of the ' Arthur Clarke Mars Greenhouse', which was donated to the project. About Home Page HMP History Devon Island Haughton Crater Sponsors The Participants Personal Equipment List (PDF) 2001 Field Season Plan (PDF) (Subject to change) Final Webcam Images HMP Research Program Publications Science Geology Biology Exploration ...

NASA's Viking Mission to Mars was composed of two spacecraft, Viking 1 and Viking 2, each consisting of an orbiter and a lander. The primary mission 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.

NewsWire for the New Frontier - a comprehensive news and information resource covering all aspects of the planet Mars, including robotic and human exploration, technology, and the search for Life on Mars.

Brought to you by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team Afternoon clouds over the Tharsis volcanoes and Valles Marineris in April 1999 (Mars Orbiter Camera image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems) Contents: Late Martian Weather! Highlights of the Martian Atmosphere Martian Temperature and Pressure Profiles Public Access to Data Products Daily Martian Weather Report ...

Links > Forums ... About New Mars Articles ... Fiction Interviews ... Editorials Reviews ... Gallery ... Links Forums > 3 user(s) are online with 2268 total posts. The last post was made in Food by Byron. Meta New Mars > News and commentary about all things Mars May 26, 2002 Stop press! Next Thursday, NASA will announce the discovery of huge water ice oceans on Mars. Lying less than a metre ...

Mars Today Mars Today, created by Howard Houben of the Mars Global Circulation Model Group, is a poster produced daily by the Center for Mars Exploration at NASA's Ames Research Center. The updated poster depicts current conditions on Mars and its relationship to Earth in six panels. The upper left panel diagrams the current positions of Mars and Earth in their orbits around the Sun. Note that ...

Cornell University, NASA's JPL and Bill Nye present the next mission to the planet Mars: Athena in 2003. Images, at-home experiments for kids and lesson plans compliment details of mission goals and payload.

Mars Introduction Where there is no vision, the people perish. - Proverbs 29:18 Table of Contents Mars Introduction Mars Statistics Animations of Mars Views of Mars Mars Moon Summary Moons of Mars Deimos, Phobos Mars Science New Images Suggest Present-Day Sources of Liquid Water on Mars The Surface of Mars Mars Pathfinder Mission Water History, Rock Composition Life from Mars: The Discovery ...

. . . if they decide to do so, our descendants can create a New Earth - perhaps a New Eden - on the next world outwards from the Sun. Arthur C. Clarke On to Mars There were those who d r e a m e d . . . and those who built upon dreams. . . . . . some to see some to touch . . . . . . imagination captured. Mars Direct-A History, Volume 1, Preface, CI.XXVII Planet.IV, Sol System Mars ...

MARS-96 &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. Brief description Table of contents Inroduction Scientific goals Scheme of the mission Spacecraft Orbiter Payload of the Orbiter Scientific goals of the experiments Description of the instruments Small Stations Penetrators Conclusion o ee Description of the project This issue describes the MARS-96 robotic spacecraft scientific ...

MARS-96 &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp ROBOTIC SPACECRAFT MISSION TO MARS. Brief description Table of contents Inroduction Scientific goals Scheme of the mission Spacecraft Orbiter Payload of the Orbiter Scientific goals of the experiments Description of the instruments Small Stations Penetrators Conclusion o ee Description of the project This issue describes the MARS-96 robotic spacecraft scientific ...

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Discover the future of Mars after colonization and terraforming and learn exactly how we could do it. Exclusive articles, interviews, daily news, forum, image gallery, and more.

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) MOC Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars MGS MOC Releases MOC2-234 to MOC2-245, 22 June 2000 Gullies seen on martian cliffs and crater walls in a small number of high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) suggest that liquid water has seeped onto the surface in the geologically recent past.

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The Case for Mars International Conference for the Exploration and Colonization of Mars The Case for Mars Conference Proceedings, Tables of Contents and How to Obtain CFM Proceedings Reading Lists, and Technical Articles Add your name to the Case for Mars Mailing List Program and Abstracts - The Case for Mars VI Conference, July 17-20, 1996 Mounting Evidence of Water and Life on Mars Gullies ...

Explore Mars has articles about Mars and robotic and manned missions to the red planet as well as a database of martian features.

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Take a Virtual tour of the planet Mars in the year 2058. Check out the extensive list of links related to the red planet.

NASA Web site featuring headlines on recent astronomy research at Marshall Space Flight Center. Read about developments in auroras, the sun, and deep space. New headlines appear every few days.

Manned Mission to Mars Contents Home Jobs for the 21st Century US Patent #5, 305, 974 A Mars Shuttle for $10 Billion Fast Manned Expeditions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, ... Product catalog Links to other Sites Services Tickets to Mars Email-crwillis@androidworld.com MARS - 257KB Salient Points New method of propulsion - US Patent #5, 305, 974 Specific Impulse of 3300 seconds 1000 passengers - crew of ...

Finalist Teams Announced! COMPETITION GUIDELINES Proposals Due: November 21, 2001 NMB Quicktime Movies The Student Experience (7.5 MB) The Faculty Experience (8.0 MB) Finalist Teams Announced! Check the Amendments Page!! Past Programs NASA and the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) are pleased to announce the NASA Means Business Student Competition 2002 program (NMB '02). WE INVITE YOU to ...

The Search for Life on Mars. The discovery of Mars meteorite ALH84001 and debate about the findings of ancient Martian life contained within. The Viking experiments and the debate about the results of the Labeled Release experiment. The implications if Mars life is found.

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The Roving Mouse Mars Atlas lets you view color closeups of Mars by clicking on a globe, scrolling with a compass, or looking up the name of a feature.

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ORRERY: Mars. The red planet, and the one most likely to be colonised by mankind.

Science Online and AAAS Present: The Presidential Candidates on Science Policy This week, we offer several online features designed to provide a scientific perspective on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. In the Candidates' Words To gauge the science priorities of U.S. presidential candidates George W. Bush and Albert Gore, Science Online will present the candidates' responses to a series ...

Life on Mars Michael Caplinger, Malin Space Science Systems April 1995 In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli produced the first modern map of Mars, on which he showed a system of what he called canali. Although canali in Italian means channel , without the implication of being an artificial feature, the word was commonly translated into English as canal . Schiaparelli's map of Mars (1888) In 1910, ...

Mars Planet Profile Mass (kg)............................................6.42 x 10^23 Diameter (km)........................................6787 Mean density (kg/m^3) ...............................3940 Escape velocity (m/sec)..............................5000 Average distance from Sun (AU).......................1.524 Rotation period (length of day in Earth days)........1.026 Revolution period ...

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The thought of terraforming Mars is one of those ideas so outrageous that it just might work! Learn how it will work!

Mars exploration, from Pathfinder to manned landing--the very best of what there is has landed here in concise style.

With the prospects for finding life at Mars looking up, proponents of elaborate human settlements there are ready to defend themselves against charges of contaminating what's possibly already thriving there.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. April 28, 1999 A Sundial for Mars Credit: W. Sullivan (U. Washington) et al., Mars Surveyor 2001, NASA Explanation: When Mars Surveyor arrives at Mars in 2002, it will carry a sundial. Even though ...

Biology and the Planetary Engineering of Mars Julian A. Hiscox Department of Microbiology, BBRB 17, Room 361, University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Al 35294-2170, USA. E-mail: Julian_Hiscox@micro.microbio.uab.edu I. Introduction From the perspective of biology, planetary engineering is the ability to alter the environment of a planet so that terrestrial organisms can survive and grow ...

With NASA Topic Tracker you can quickly find facts about Mars, photographs, Mars maps, missions to Mars, educational products related to Mars, and other NASA resources for the red planet.

The internet's ultimate collection of selected resources and information about the mission of man kind to explore the ever mysterious red planet - our old neighbor. * TheMissionToMars.COM * ...

Newsletter of the Molecular Manufacturing Shortcut Group Volume 4, Number 1, First Quarter, 1996 President's Column MMSG Appears on NASA's Radar Editor's Notes Micro Technologies for Spacecraft Announcements International Space Development Conference (ISDC) The Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology MMSG Officers The Fourth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology Major ...

The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization Robert Zubrin Lockheed Martin Astronautics PO Box 179 Denver, CO 80201, USA (Originally found as badly formatted text at http://www.magick.net/mars/docs/m_econom.txt, a part of Mars Direct Manned Mars Mission Home Page) Abstract The economic viability of colonizing Mars is examined. It is shown, that of all bodies in the solar system other than Earth, ...

Mars Colonization It is likely that the colonization of Mars will not be a simple 'Let's go!' affair. Rather, it will be a result of a sustained serious of missions to Mars, perhaps on the lines of the Mars Direct mission or the NASA Mars Reference mission (a.k.a 'Mars Semi-Direct'). Both these mission plans envisage a number of long-stay missions to Mars where astronauts will live on the planet ...

Mars' Canyons from silicone dust rivers, silicone created by methane added to silica powered by sun's ultraviolet or ions.

Blue Sky on Mars! Why do the NASA-pictures have this red tint Life on Mars!

A scientist believes he sees tell-tale signs of microbes on Mars hiding in experimentresults gathered nearly 25 years ago.

The Moons of Mars Mars has two small moons that are illustrated in the following figures, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos (Ref) Deimos (Ref) These are examples of what are called minor satellites: small chunks of rock in orbit around planets as compared with large satellites like the Earth's Moon. As the adjacent images show, they are very irregular in shape. Phobos is 27 km long in its longest ...

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Presented at the Founding Convention of the Mars Society, August 13-16 1998, University of Colorado in Boulder, CO An expanded version of this article was published as the science-fact article Onward: to the Pole! Analog, June 1999. Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition Geoffrey A. Landis NASA John Glenn Research Center Abstract A first Mars expedition will be greatly facilitated by use ...

Mars' Moons - Phobos & Deimos, from ORRERY: the Solar System in action.

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 5, 2154-2157, February 27, 2001 Abstract of this Article Reprint (PDF) Version of this Article Similar articles found in: PNAS Online ISI Web of Science PubMed PubMed Citation Search Medline for articles by: Gerstell, M. F. || Aaltonee, E. T. Search for citing articles in: ISI Web of Science (1) Alert me when: new articles cite this article Download to ...

Mars has always been a provocateur.

Phobos and Deimos Mars is orbited by two satellites, both believed to be captured asteroids. This is because of both Mars' proximity to the Asteroid Belt and their small sizes and irregular shapes. The table below provides some information on their dimensions and orbital characteristics (Illingworth, 1994). Satellite Year of Discovery Diameter (Km) Orbital Radius (Km) Eccentricity Orbital Period ...

General Mars information, images, life on Mars, news, current, future, and past missions, terraforming, conferences, Mars paraphernalia, Mars fiction on line, nonfiction, societies, and the face.

Welcome to the Mission to Mars IPRO page This group consists of students from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Chicago-Kent College of Law. This sight is designed to facilitate communications between the sub-groups, as well as to let others know what it is we are doing. If you would like more information about this ipro, please feel free to email the group at mars@charlie.cns.iit.edu ...

The NASA Galileo Mission launched in 1989 en route to Jupiter and its moons, Io, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede.