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 The Mars Millennium
Project provides you with some resources to help you with your Project
work. Sites include authoritative information about Mars and topics
directly or indirectly related to issues of living and working on
Mars. Most sites include pointers to other sites. Follow them to
even more great information and activities.
Resources are divided into United States Government sites (starting
below) and non-governmental resources.
Every effort has been made to review the listed resources but if
you become aware of any inappropriate material please notify
us right away. Many of the government sites point to non-governmental
resources.
NASA and other United States Government online resources:
NASA
SpaceLink Mars Educational Materials
The Mars section of NASA's primary site for educators
and their students. Bookmark http://spacelink.nasa.gov
as your source of NASA educational materials.
NASA
CORE (Central Operation of Resources for Educators)
Mars related audio-visual materials. See http://core.nasa.gov/
for other resources.
NASA Mars Exploration
Program
The NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Program site.
Includes links to the latest images, past, present and future missions,
press releases, educational materials and scientific papers.
NASA
"Reference Missions" 
The Center for Mars Exploration (CMEX)
Lots of information and pointers to maps, images,
education and general interest and technical information. Start
with the Table
of Contents.
Mars
Explorer from the Planetary Data System
The Mars Explorer allows you to get an image map
of any area on Mars at a variety of zoom factors, image sizes,
and map projections. These images are created using data from
NASA's Viking missions. To create your map, simply click the area
you want on the browse image below, and the MapMaker program will
do the rest!
NASA's
Planetary Photojournal: Mars
Images of Mars, Photos and Demos from orbit and
the surface. You can download the images in any format you wish.
Mars
Team Online
By participating in the Mars Team Online project,
you and your students can join the Mars team in their exploration
of the Red Planet! The project is targeted at the middle school
grade levels, but will have appeal above and below that range.
NASA's Quest
Team includes online projects and chats on other topics as
well.
NASA Student Involvement
Program (NSIP)
NSIP is a national competition for students in grades
3-12 that links U.S. students directly with NASA's mission of
research, exploration. and discovery. Educator's Resource Guides
for NSIP projects are at: http://www.nsip.net/erg.html.
The next competition will be this Fall.
- Design a
Mission to Mars - Grades 5-12. Write a proposal for a future
mission to Mars by defining a question(s) your mission will
answer. Then design a robotic, orbital or sample return mission,
or a human landing.
- Aeronautics
& Space Science Journalism - Grades 3-12. Select a
newsworthy current event or ongoing story and prepare a news
report for the general public.
Meteorites
From Mars
Life on Mars? There are twelve
unusual meteorites that are almost certainly pieces of Mars blasted
off the planet by meteoroid impact, one of which may have evidence
of life. This site includes information from the original
announcement.
Updated
Mars Meteorite Information
Much of it
technical.
Photovoltaic
Power Options for Mars
Mars exploration
could use solar power systems to operate on the Martian surface.
Solar cells usable in a photovoltaic array and possible applications
on Mars are described. The applicability of photovoltaic technology
to manufacturing methane propellant from Mars carbon dioxide is
analyzed.
Environmental
Protection Agency "Student Center"
Lots of
links to information about environmental issues like water quality,
human health, waste and recycling, air quality and other issues that
can be related to a Mars habitat. Most materials are targeted
towards middle and high school students. The
EPA Kids' Site includes materials for younger children
too.
 Astrobiology
NASA's study of the living universe.
Basics
of Space Flight
JPL's basic space flight
familiarization training for operations staff.
Electronic
PictureBooks
The Hubble Space Telescope
Science Institute's Exploration in Education has a number of
electronic image stacks for Windows and Macintosh.
NASA
Human Spaceflight
Learn about the latest
from the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and the
Russian Mir space station.
Exploring
the Moon and Mars: Choices for the Nation
A
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment report from July,
1991. Of particular interest is chapter 3, Human Exploration of the
Moon and Mars.
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Non-Governmental Online
Resources:
Mars
Lots of data, references, links and a glossary from the
Students for the Explorations & Development of Space at the
University of Arizona. Also check out the
older site.
Reaching
for the Red Planet
Reaching for the Red
Planet is a multi-purpose curriculum focusing on planning a Mars
colony. The project entails learning general facts about the
planets, learning about the Earth's environment, choosing a purpose
for a colony on Mars, and planning and designing a colony on Mars.
The students will use drawings, creative writing, research skills,
team work, math, and the scientific method to explore their own
environment, and design an artificial one for Mars.
Mars
Academy
Mars Academy is an educational
collaborative project to study the problems involved in the design
of a piloted mission to the Red Planet. The site contains lots of
great information but it is text based and most appropriate for high
school students.
Red
Rover, Red Rover Project
The Planetary
Society's Red Rover Red Rover permits teleoperation of model LEGO
rovers in simulated Mars terrains worldwide, for schools, science
centers, students and adults -- in a simulation of the robotic
control of rovers on Mars.
Mars
Direct Piloted Mission
A number of
interesting but technical papers about the "Mars Direct" mission
plan.
The
Martian Sun-Times
Series of lessons where
students become weather reporters for the Martian Sun-Times
newspaper. They gather, interpret and compare current weather
information for Mars and Earth. Middle school and
above.
Scientific
American Frontiers Journey to Mars
Scientists, including a psychologist, Q&A from a program
that originally aired 11/11/98. Also check out " The
Magnificent Cosmos."
The Artemis
Project
Artemis is a private venture to establish a permanent,
self-supporting community on the Moon. Go to the Artemis Data Book
for discussions of lots of relevant topics, even though they relate
more to the Moon.
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Sources for Space-Related News Stories
Mars News
The Mars Society's site for news about Mars (and
the Society). Scroll down the page and also check out the Newswire
bar near the upper right corner of the page.
Center
for Educational Resources (CERES) Project
A variety of science education activities organized
by grade span.
Last Updated 5/17/00.
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