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NASA Center for Mars Exploration
Various resources on Mars Exploration with an educational emphasis.

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

Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition
Discusses the reasons why a site on the Martian pole might be the best place to land a first expedition to Mars.

Mars In the Mind of Earth
A Set of Ongoing Bibliographies of Terran Literature concerning the Planet Mars

2009 Reference Mission Overview
NASA Mars Mission

Mission to Mars IPRO
Reports on a project undertaken to design and plan a manned mission to Mars utilizing existing space technology and off the shelf components. Interdisciplinary effort by students from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Russian Mars 96 Mission
Detailed description of failed Mars exploratory mission

Explore the Planet Mars
Realistic, interactive, 3D walk-though of a Mars base desgined for the first humans to land on Mars including a Mars habitat, greenhouse, Mars car and robot rovers.

Clickworkers
Project helping NASA to date Martian land areas by counting craters. Information on how to participate.

Human Exploration of Mars
The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team.


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