Lukol Directory: Science: Astronomy: Solar System: Mars

Mars: Its History
Mars exploration and discovery from earliest times to the present.
http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/Mars.htm

MarsQuest Online
Interactive explorations of Mars: students can fly in 3D, launch a spacecraft, drive a rover, perform investigations.
http://www.marsquestonline.org

NASA Goddard Institute: Time on Mars
Java applet showing "time" (sunside / nightside) at specified locations on Mars.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/mars/time/

Mariner 6 & 7 Image Browser
Salvaging information from early NASA missions stored on now-obsolete media.
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/marin...

NPR Science Friday : Surprising New Discoveries on Mars
Scientists studying the output of probes orbiting Mars have made impressive discoveries. [17:47 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...

Mars Base dot Net
Provides scientific data of various kinds such as the time on Mars, Sun and Earth rise/set, mission countdowns and news.
http://www.marsbase.net

Red Colony.com - The Future of Mars Today
Learn about colonization and terraforming with the latest news, images, and chat.
http://www.redcolony.com/

Explore Mars
Educational site with historical information, missions details and an online database for more than 1400 of the named features on Mars.
http://www.astrodigital.org/mars/

Mars for Dummies
A beginner's account of Mars. Includes some technically-oriented information.
http://www.geocities.com/supriyamishra2002...

The Mars Web Ring
No unique content but links to over 100 Mars sites - many are listed in the ODP but many aren't. Some good, some bad.
http://nav.webring.com/cgi-bin/navcgi?ring...

the Darian Defrost Calendar
An interactive space-time distortion that takes you to the 22nd century, in which Mars is fully terraformed.
http://www.geocities.com/fra_nl/

Mars in the Mind of Earth
Bibliographies of Terran literature concerning the planet Mars.
http://www.marsearth.com/

Archives of Images and Tables for Mars Thermospheres
Recent model results that illustrate the thermal, compositional and dynamical responses of the upper atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars to solar EUV-UV flux
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~sengel/thermo....

Mars Links
Images, life on Mars, news, missions, terraforming, conferences, Mars paraphernalia, Mars fiction on line, nonfiction, societies, and the face.
http://www.sff.net/people/ckanderson/mars....

Mars
at NASA/JPL. Includes Mars' planetary profile and vital statistics.
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/ma...

Mars meteorite
The first picritic Martian shergottite meteorite discovered. Commercial site selling Meteorites.
http://fernlea.tripod.com/picrite.html

Destination: MARS
Information, animations and a set of themes illustrating various facets of the red planet.
http://www.bw.qc.ca/mars

MarsNews.com
NewsWire for the New Frontier. A comprehensive news & information resource on Mars missions, technology, and the search for life on the red planet.
http://www.marsnews.com

Mariner Mars 1971 Data Viewer - Albatross
Downloadable computer program to interactively visualise and analyse the UltraViolet Spectrometer and Television Camera from the Mariner Mars (1971) spacecraft.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/albatross/

The Daily Martian Weather Report
Provides weather observations and images transmitted from the Mars Global Surveyor.
http://nova.stanford.edu/projects/mgs/dmwr...

New Mars - A Journal of the Martian Frontier
a Journal of the Martian Frontier, offering news and perspectives.
http://www.newmars.com/

Mars
Views of the Solar System, Calvin J. Hamilton.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm

View from the Mars Polar Lander
A java applet showing the horizon view from the site of the Mars Polar Lander. The user can set the time and date and observe the position of the sun and the earth from the landing site, along with other information.
http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/mp...

ESA's Mars Express
Latest updates, images, and videos of ESA's Mars Express mission, due for landing on Mars on December 25, 2003.
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Ex...

Mars Explorer
General introductory information on Mars.
http://www.geocities.com/spanky_stott/

Martian Soil
Mars related news regarding scientific exploration and popular culture.
http://www.martiansoil.com

3D Mars Images
Collection of stereoscopic pictures [requires red/cyan 3D glasses for viewing].
http://www.freewebs.com/thombone/

Mars 2112, restaurant:
Promotional site for a Mars-themed Restaurant
http://www.mars2112.com/

MOLA Viewer
Offers a program to view the surface of Mars, based on data from the Global Surveyor radar altimeter. [Requires extensive Java downloads]
http://cgibin.starpower.net/mmacdonald31/d...

NSSDC Photo Gallery: Mars
A collection of images, including global views and surface features of the planet.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/p...

Mars
From ORRERY, the Solar System in Action.
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/mars.html

Mars Data Conglomerator
Takes multiple non-homogenous data sets of Mars and combines them into meaningful views. MOLA, Viking, GEO, TES, 2D, 3D and more are provided.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/mars/

JPL Mars Exploration Program
Various sections: Extreme Planet, Follow the Water, Mars Rocks, Life on Mars?, The Martian Mystique and Just for Kids.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

The Mission To Mars
Collection of selected resources and information about the mission of man kind to explore the ever mysterious red planet.
http://www.themissiontomars.com/

MSSS Mars Image Release Directory
From the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard Mars Global Surveyor.
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/

Mars24 - Time on Mars
Offers a program to display time on Mars, including local solar angles. [Requires Java]
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/

Mars
From The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html

The Whole Mars Catalog
An online guide to Mars.
http://www.reston.com/astro/mars/

Haughton-Mars Project
NASA/Ames research project to explore Haughton Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, a Mars analogue.
http://www.arctic-mars.org/

Sub Topics:
Amateur Observing
Missions
Terraforming
Colonization
Mars Society
Exploration
Life on Mars
Moons
Atlases





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2006