| Mars - Planet fourth in order from
the sun. In Roman mythology, god of war and discord (Greek
name, Ares).
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We have some fantastic images of the Red Planet
in our Gallery.
The
"Mars Exploration Rovers" web site!
- Red
Colony This is a great web site loaded full of information
about the Red Planet and future plans for colonizing it. Everything
from detailed colonization information, Bioengineering, Climatology,
Geology, and detailed mission information.
- The
NASA Planetary Photojournal This service, developed as
a collaboration between NASA's Planetary Data System Imaging Node,
the Solar System Visualization Project,and JPL's Media Relations
Office, is designed to provide you with easy access to the publicly
released images from various Solar System exploration programs.
- A
Close Encounter with Mars Taking advantage of Mars's closest
approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest
views yet of the Red Planet. NASA is releasing these images to
commemorate the second anniversary of the Mars Pathfinder landing.
- Center
for Mars Exploration The Center for Mars Exploration (CMEX)
WWW server is constantly being updated, so keep checking this
page for many new features including historical references to
Mars, previous Mars mission information, tools to analyze Mars,
current Mars news, and much more.
- CNN
Destination Mars The CNN mars page is loaded full of information
including NASA rockets to Mars, Future Missions, A Pathfinder
interactive tracker, Visual Images of Mars, Mars Mania and more.
- Exploring
the Planet Mars This site has a ton of information about
the red planet. It includes Satellite data, Observations, Exploring
the planet, the Viking Mission, the Surface, Global Views, Mars
Meteorite information, an Imagery index, and more links leading
to Mars sites. Plus much much more.
- Mars
This link is jam packed with information about the Red planet.
Mars (Greek: Ares) is the god of War. The planet probably got
this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to
as the Red Planet. (An interesting side note: the Roman god Mars
was a god of agriculture before becoming associated with the Greek
Ares; those in favor of colonizing and terraforming Mars may prefer
this symbolism.) The name of the month March derives from Mars.
This and more can be found here.
- Mars
Exploration Program This is a NASA web site loaded full
of all sorts of information regarding Mars including Missions,
History, Architecture, Education, Press Materials and more.
- Mars
Global Surveyor Even though this mission was lost we were
still able to gain a lot of valuable information back from it.
This site is loaded full of all the information we were able to
retrieve.
- Mars
Pathfinder Home The most famous and successful mission
to Mars. Mars Pathfinder was a NASA Discovery Mission. "Faster,
better, and cheaper" with three years for development and cost
under $150 million dollars. Demonstrate a simple, low-cost system,
at fixed price for placing a science payload on the surface of
Mars at 1/15 the Viking price tag. Demonstrate NASA's commitment
to low-cost planetary exploration by completing the mission for
a total cost of $280 million dollars including the launch vehicle
and mission operations. Demonstrate the mobility and usefulness
of a microrover on the surface of Mars. This site has all this
information and all of the finding that were brought back to us
from the mission including 3D images of the landscape and science
facts that were found.
- The
Mars Society The Purpose of the Mars Society To further
the goal of the exploration and settlement of the Red Planet.
This will be done by: 1. Broad public outreach to instill the
vision of pioneering Mars. 2. Support of ever more aggressive
government funded Mars exploration programs around the world.
3. Conducting Mars exploration on a private basis. Starting small,
with hitchhiker payloads on government funded missions, we intend
to use the credibility that such activity will engender to mobilize
larger resources that will enable stand-alone private robotic
missions and ultimately human exploration.
- Planet
B The Planet-B mission is to send a spacecraft to our
neighboring planet Mars. The spacecraft which later renamed Nozomi(=hope),
was launched with M-V rocket at Kagosima Space Center(KSC) on
July 4th 1998. After orbiting Earth for 4 months, Nozomi departs
for the Mars. After traveling through interplanetary space for
10 months, it will be injected into Mars orbit.
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