Internet Resources for Teaching About Mars
This collection of digital resources includes web sites useful for integrating Mars data into commonly taught undergraduate geoscience courses and for teaching planetary geology in general.
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Subject: Geoscience
Subject: Lunar and Planetary Science
- 24 matches General/Other
- Mars 80 matches
Subject: Mars
- 43 matches General/Other
- Water/Ice 7 matches
- Atmosphere/Climate 6 matches
- Structure/Tectonics 6 matches
- Geophysics 4 matches
- Volcanology/Petrology 4 matches
- Sedimentary Processes 3 matches
- Impact Cratering 3 matches
- Geologic History 6 matches
- Life on Mars 11 matches
- Missions/Data Acquisition 36 matches
- Images/Maps/Visualizations 37 matches
- Martian Meteorites 8 matches
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Life in Extreme Environments: The Universe May Be More Habitable Than We Thought, Part 2 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This article explores microbial life in extreme environments associated with salinity, acidity, alkalinity, high temperature, low temperature, radiation, gravity, and pressure. It also introduces the ...
Mars Exploration Rover Mission part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. The web site includes updates about the rovers Spirit and ...
Alkaline Hypersaline Lakes as Analogs for Ancient Microbial Habitats on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site features a scientific article associated with the Mars Global Surveyor Project, reporting data collected from a study analyzing Mono Lake as a terrestrial analog to Mars. The study is ...
The Sciences: The Frontiers of Life part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 60-page special issue of The Sciences features articles written by leading researchers in the fields of astrobiology and evolution. Appropriately titled The Frontiers of Life, article topics ...
Exobiology: The Survival Ability of Halophiles under Martian Conditions part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This report examines the ability of two halophiles isolated from San Francisco Bay to survive severe Martian conditions. The report introduces the extreme conditions on Mars and offers a brief survey ...
Scientific Visualization Studio: Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio features many images and animations of the planet Mars. These visualizations were created using data acquired from various satellites and ...
Liquid Water on Mars: The Story from Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Martian Meteorites Record Surface Temperatures on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Planetary Science Research Discoveries at the University of Hawaii uses recent research on using the ages of Martian meteorites to explore the history of surface temperature on Mars. ...
Meteorites from Mars, Rocks from Canada part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from the University of Hawaii's Planetary Science Research Discoveries compares rocks from Theo's flow, an unusually thick lava flow in Ontario, to nakhlites, meteorites from Mars. The ...
Mars Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Of the 24,000 or so meteorites that have been discovered on Earth, only 34 have been identified as originating from the planet Mars. This site from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory features a ...
