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Internet Resources for Teaching About Mars

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Scientific Visualization Studio: Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Mars.html
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 ...

Alkaline Hypersaline Lakes as Analogs for Ancient Microbial Habitats on Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/sci/fifthconf99/6136.pdf
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 ...

Liquid Water on Mars: The Story from Meteorites part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/May00/wetMars.html

Meteorites from Mars, Rocks from Canada part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec96/Nakhlites.html
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 Exploration Program Landing Sites part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/
This site features interactive maps and data sets about landing sites on Mars. There are clickable maps with a variety of data, including visible light images, thermal images, topography, and ...

Pancam part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://marswatch.astro.cornell.edu/pancam_instrument/
This website, hosted by Cornell University, is the homepage of Pancam, a high-resolution stereo camera that takes color pictures of the surrounding Martian landscape from the Mars Exploration Rovers. ...

Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/choices/mars1.htm
This NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) planet profile provides data and images of the planet Mars. These data include planet size, orbit facts, distance from the Sun, rotation and ...

Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Science Investigation part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/mola.html
MOLA is an instrument orbiting Mars on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft. It transmits infrared laser pulses in order to construct a precise topographic map of Mars.

Mars part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/mars/mars.html
This section of the Windows to the Universe web site provides information and images about Mars including detailed information about this planet, space science, Martian atmosphere, Martian weather, ...

Your Planetary Protection Officer part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.slate.com/id/2099222/
This is a brief article about John Rummel, NASA's Planetary Protection Officer. It explains the purpose of planetary protection (to prevent contamination of Earth by alien life forms and of space by ...

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