:: The Mars Project

Welcome to the Mars Project Links page. We hope that this will be a comprehensive list for anybody who loves the planet Mars. Educators and students will find these links very useful for researching the red planet. Make sure to check this page regularly because we will be adding new links often. Contact us If you would like us to add a link to your site. Happy surfing!

The Mars Page
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/marspage.html
Source of all of NASA’s information concerning Mars. A great starting place for Mars research.

Nasa's Planetary Photo Journal
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/PIA.html
Great photos from all of Nasa's planetary probes. Check out the amazing photos being taken by the Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter.

Hubble Space Telescope Images of Mars
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html#hst

The Mars Society
http://www.marssociety.org/
A site dedicated the exploration and settlement of the red planet.

Mars Direct Home Page
http://www.nw.net/mars/marsdirect.html
This is the homepage of one of our heroes, Robert Zubrin, His book “The Case for Mars” has been a major resource for the development of the MarsProject.

PDS Mars Explorer for the Armchair Astronaut
http://www-pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/mapmaker/
A wonderful interactive map of Mars created by Planetary Data Systems. We found this map to be quite useful during the creation of the MarsProject.

Pathfinder Mission Homepage
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mesur.html

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
This is where people who actually got to drive the Sojourner rover work.

Center for Mars Exploration
http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/
The NASA Ames Space Division site about Mars exploration. Check out the paper model of the Mars Pathfinder. It’s a great school project.

The Mars Web Ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=mars;list
A comprehensive list of Web Sites about Mars.

West to Mars
http://www.marswest.org/
A visual journey to the red planet.

Mars Tourist Information
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fwb/rgbtour.html
A fun site that has all you need to know when planning a visit to the red planet.

Mission Mars
http://library.advanced.org/10274/index.htm
A ThinkQuest site about Mars developed by students. ThinkQuest is a an annual competition that challenges students, ages 12 to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool.

Mars Time
http://un.cs.byu.edu/~sorenson/mars/
A Java applet that shows current the Earth and Mars time written by Frank Sorenson.

Options for Martian Timekeeping
http://www.jps.net/gangale/mars/other/woodsfrm.htm
Another very good site from JPL about keeping time on Mars.

The Mars Academy
http://www.marsacademy.com/
A collaborative education project to design and simulate a manned mission to the Red Planet. A great resource for educators.

The Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/
A JPL site that has tons of fun space activities for kids.

Mars Team Online
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/index.html
A site targeted at middle schools students that gives them access to NASA experts.
This site is full of educational activities and teaching tools. They have a wonderful teacher's guide that you can download that’s full of lesson plans and activity sheets.

The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
A great resource for space related science.

The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
One of the best sites around for exploring our solar system.

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