Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites
http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/

Virginia Gulick, Center for Mars Exploration


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 geology. The site also hosts reports and presentations from workshops about selecting the Mars landing sites.

This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.


Part of the Cutting Edge collection. The NAGT/DLESE On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods.

Cutting Edge

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars:Missions/Data Acquisition, Images/Maps/Visualizations, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Resource Type: Activities, Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Scientific Resources:Overview/Reference Work, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Maps
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Data Derived: Data Derived
Data Source: Observational Data
Science Background Required: Broadly accessible
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Planetary Science, Structural Geology