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- Mars (Hamilton)
Includes pictures, articles, and links.
- News on Mars Missions (NASA)
Provides news on the missions to Mars, including Spirit and Opportunity. 1-04
- Mars Pathfinder Image Gallery (CNN)
Provides photos and links.
- Mars - Rusty Sunset on Mars Photograph
Provides a sunset from mars taken August 4, 1997.
- Mars Surveryor 1998 Climate Orbiter (NASA)
Provides information on space flights to Mars.
- Map - Mars Interactive Map (USG - Kanefsky)
Provides a clickable globe of Mars to zoom in to details. 7-99
- Why Explore Mars (NASA)
"After Earth, Mars is the planet with the most hospitable climate in the solar system. So hospitable that it may once have harbored primitive, bacteria-like life. Outflow channels and other geologic features provide ample evidence that billions of years ago liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars. Although liquid water may still exist deep below the surface of Mars, currently the temperature is too low and the atmosphere too thin for liquid water to exist at the surface." 12-03
- Terraforming Mars - Paintings (SpaceRef Interactive)
Provides artist depictions of Mars after bringing life to it. 02-06
- Mars (KidsAstronomy.com)
Provides a picture and information, such as the orbit, rotation, mass, distance from the sun, speed, volume relative to the earth, temperature, atmosphere, and diameter. Even tells how much you would weight if you were there. 11-00.
- Mars - Strong Evidence of Life (CNN)
Provides the conclusion of scientists that a rock, believed to be 4.5 billion years old, contains fossilized bacteria that originated on Mars. 12-00
- Marsalis, Wynton (Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Provides a biography of the artistic director. 2-01
- Weather on Mars (MartianSun-Times - Benson, Vaughan, and Others)
Provides lessons to study weather on Mars. 3-01
- Water on Mars Debate (CNN - Space)
Describes the debate on whether there is water on Mars. An alternative theory is that the markings on Mars that look like they are caused by water are actually caused by liquid carbon dioxide. 4-01
- Water on Mars - Odyssey Mission (CNN - Space)
Provides a drawing of the spacecraft that will determine if Mars has water and possibly whether life ever existed there. 4-01
- Mars Exploration (NASA)
Provides news and other information on exploration of Mars. 4-01
- Terraforming Mars for Humans (HowStuffWorks.com)
Describes how Mars may be changed to allow humans to live there. 4-01
- Water on Mars - Odyssey Mission (HowStuffWorks.com)
Explains the Odyssey mission. 4-01
- Mars (National Geographic Society)
Describes Mars and missions to Mars. 4-01
- Mars Up Close (BBC News - Whitehouse)
Shows a picture from the Hubble telescope, from the closest Mars has been to Earth since 1988. 6-01
- Water May Flow on Mars (BBC News - Whitehouse)
Shows pictures that suggest that water may have flowed on the surface of Mars recently. 6-01
- Water on Mars - How It Is Detected (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Shows how water is detected on Mars, using a gamma ray spectrometer. Also provides the latest news on the Odyssey mission. 3-02
- Comparing Earth and Mars (Urquhart)
Provides a table comparing the two planets and includes comments. 3-02
- Water - Reaching Water Below the Surface on Mars (Urquhart)
"In this activity, students will record and graph temperature data to learn about the search for water on Mars. Students will use a model of an ice-rich and ice-free near-surface on Mars to examine how the ice content of the martian soil will affect the rate at which a warm probe will cool." 3-02
- Mars Trip - Lessons and Projects (Urquhart)
Provides activities about traveling to Mars and then colonizing Mars. "What follows is a course outline describing each module of the project. The modules include assignments for the students as well as experiments that can be completed in class, and in some cases, teacher's guides." 3-02
- 05-15-02 Mars May Have Underground Water (CNN)
Summarizes the finding of vast amounts of amounts of hydrogen under the ground surface on Mars. This probably means that Mars has vast amounts of water.
- Water Discovered on Mars (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Describes efforts to find water on Mars on the Odyssey project. 'The signal we're getting is loud and clear. There's lots of ice on Mars," Boynton said. "We're not just looking at surface frost. It's a fair amount of ice." Finding water on Mars means that Humans may be able to live there.
- 06-01-03 Europe Sends Probe to Mars (BBC News)
"The race to find life on Mars is set to begin on Monday with the launch of Europe's first voyage to another planet." 6-03
- 08-04-03 Mars Rover Expedition (CNN)
"A NASA robot packed with eight cameras, geology instruments and super-rugged wheels roared into space on Tuesday, one of three missions headed to Mars this summer during the most favorable cosmic conditions in centuries."
"Their geologic studies, scheduled to last three months, are designed to find physical evidence of water activity on Mars from billions of years ago, when the planet was thought to have been wetter and warmer -- and possibly inhabited by microbes."
"Like surfers who have been waiting for the big wave, the spacecraft are riding to the red planet as Mars and Earth make their nearest pass to each other since prehistoric times."
"A closer approach won't take place until 2287, according to Sky & Telescope Magazine." 8-03
- 08-24-03 Mars Closest Ever (USAToday.com - Vergano)
"On Aug. 28, the day after the closest passage, the alignment of the sun, Earth and Mars will be perfectly straight."
"But this week, the two planets pass as close as they ever get — 34.6 million miles (34,646,418.5 miles, to be precise) instead of the usual distance of about 60 million miles, says astronomer Myles Standish of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory." 8-03
- Best Ever Picture of Mars (NewScientist.com)
"The image can resolve features on the surface of Mars measuring just 27 kilometres across. 'These are the best that have ever been, and will ever be, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope,' says Michael Wolff of the Space Science Institute in Colorado, US." 8-03
- 12-23-03 Beagle 2 Sets Down on Mars (UPI.com)
"Early Christmas morning, London time, a 70-pound British spacecraft, launched last June aboard a Russian rocket and hitchhiking behind a sophisticated European Space Agency orbital vehicle, is set to touch down on the surface of Mars. The lander, named the Beagle 2 -- in honor of the sailing ship that transported Charles Darwin on his historic voyage to the Galapagos Islands in 1831 -- represents an ingenious but daring entry in what is becoming a race to explore the red planet and establish once and for all whether it ever has harbored living organisms." 12-03
- News on Missions to Mars (NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Provides news on missions to Mars, including two unmanned rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landing in January 2004. 12-03
- Facts and Myths About Mars (CNN News)
"We know a great deal about the red planet from centuries of work by astronomers and from decades of data beamed back from unmanned spacecraft like the twin Viking landers, which in 1976 became the first spacecraft to land successfully on the planet." 12-03
- Where Spirit and Opportunity Are Now in Mission to Mars (NASA)
Provides a computer simulation of the flights of the two Mars rovers. 12-03
- Marshall, George C. - Former Secretary of Defense (Nobel eMuseum)
"America's foremost soldier during World War II, served as chief of staff from 1939 to 1945, building and directing the largest army in history. A diplomat, he acted as secretary of state from 1947 to 1949, formulating the Marshall Plan, an unprecedented program of economic and military aid to foreign nations." 1-04
- Guide to Mars Mission (NASA)
Provides a guide to the Spirit mission to Mars.
- 01-04-04 Spirit Lands on Mars (NASA)
"NASA's robot geologist Spirit landed safely on Mars after a seven-month, 300 million-mile (483 million -kilometer) journey to seek evidence that liquid water may have existed there, a possible sign the planet once supported life." 1-04
- 01-04-04 Spirit Sends Photos from Mars (USAToday.com)
"Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory let out whoops of joy and embraced one another as signals from the Spirit rover indicated it had survived the landing."
"Within hours it began sending back photos of the Red Planet. Among the first was a tiny black and white image showing a sundial on the rover. Another showed the Martian horizon and portions of the lander." 1-04
- -Genetics Basics (Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Weber)
Provides a basic foundation of knowledge in genetics. Some sample comments from Dr. Weber's guide include:
"Our bodies are comprised of trillions of microscopic units called cells. Cells in turn are built up from many specific types of molecules, both large and small. The large molecules or macromolecules include polysaccharides, nucleic acids and proteins."
"Each protein is a linear polymer of a specific sequence of 20 different amino acids. DNA is also a linear polymer comprised of 4 types of nucleotides. The sequence of amino acids in each protein is encoded by a segment of DNA called a gene. Three consecutive nucleotides in a gene encode a single amino acid in the corresponding protein. The genetic code is universal among all living things."
DNA is an exceptionally ancient and stable molecule. It is passed from one generation to the next with only very gradual change. The nucleotide sequences of chimpanzee (our closest living relative) and human DNA are about 98.5% identical despite the fact that our last common ancestor lived about 6 million years ago. Similarities in DNA nucleotide sequences can be detected between all free living organisms including reptiles and plants, worms and fungi, and humans and bacteria." 1-04
- 01-05-04 Spirit Photos from Mars in 3-D (Fox News)
"NASA (search) proudly showed off a panoramic, 360-degree, black-and-white shot of Mars from its Spirit rover and eagerly awaited the first color photo taken of the planet in seven years."
Reporters had to wear 3-D glasses to get the full effect. 1-04
- 01-06-04 Mars Rovers Questions and Answers (BBC News)
"Their mission is to examine their landing sites for past environmental conditions that may have been conducive to life." 1-04
- 01-08-04 Astronauts to be Sent to Mars (Bloomberg.com)
"President George W. Bush next week will announce plans to send U.S. astronauts to Mars and establish a permanent human outpost on the moon, an administration official said." 1-04
- 01-24-04 Second Rover Lands on Mars (CNN News)
"Opportunity, the second of NASA's twin rovers, has made the descent to the surface of Mars, touching down successfully at 0505 GMT Sunday (12:05 a.m. ET)." 1-04
- Move Rover on Mars (CNN News)
Provides a simulation for moving an animated rover. 1-04
- 3D Images of Rover on Mars (CNN News)
Provides 3D images that require 3D glasses. Also provides a link to instructions to make your own 3D glasses. 3D "glasses" can also be made by coloring a piece of clear, rigid plastic (packaging) with a red-colored marker on your left side and a blue-colored marker on your right side. 1-04
- 03-02-04 Water Once Flowed on Mars (NASA.gov)
"Scientists examining what NASA's Opportunity is showing them about Mars rocks are seeing into the past, and what they're seeing indicates water once flowed there."
"The outcrop right next to where Opportunity landed holds evidence that the rocks have spent time drenched in liquid water." 3-04
- 03-29-04 Spirals in Mars Snow Caps Unraveled (CNN News)
"Odd spiraling gorges etched deep into the polar ice caps of Mars have stumped scientists for decades. The huge arcing troughs radiate outward like arms of a pinwheel, creating an overall shape that visually and mathematically resembles hurricanes, spiral galaxies and even some seashells."
"Now there is an apparent solution to the mystery, put forth by Jon Pelletier of the University of Arizona in Tucson."
"The tilted planet causes ice on one side of a crack to heat and vaporize, deepening and widening the crack. Then the water vapor hits the shady, colder side of the growing canyon and refreezes." 3-04
- Mars Coloring Book (EnchantedLearning.com)
Provides a picture, including the inner structure. 1-05
- Marshall, Thurgood (ExploreDC.org)
Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential African American. "As a lawyer, civil rights leader, judge and the first African American to serve on the US Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was one of the most influential legal minds of the 20th century." 1-05
- Marshall, Thurgood (Awesome Library)
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