Mars Exploration

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Mars Exploration

Created: February 23, 2004 Updated: September 9, 2005

Web Sites

Mars Exploration Rover Mission - This homepage is being updated frequently by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It has a great link for Mars information for kids, students, educators and the press. The website also has detailed information on all the missions to Mars. There is even a popular culture link for science fiction buffs. (Requires flash player for full access.)

The SEDS - Student Exploration and Development of Space website has been voted a Britannica Internet Guide Award. There is a comprehensive outline of space exploration and links to other informative sites.

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Related Web Resources: Chat Rooms, Forums and Message Boards
For some exciting new pictures from the Mars Spirit Rover, click on some of the links in the google Sci.Space group.

About Space/Astronomy is chat room on the About Web Site. The chat room focus on many related topics including recent topics about Mars.

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Books and Videos
The Library has many books on Mars and Mars Exploration. The following is a sample of our holdings to search for others, use our online Catalog.

The planet Mars : a history of observation & discovery / William Sheehan.
QB641 .S484 1996

Sojourner : an insider's view of the Mars Pathfinder mission / Andrew Mishkin.
TL789.8.U6 P386 2003

Managing Martians / Donna Shirley, with Danelle Morton.
TL789.85.S52 A3 1998

The Smithsonian book of Mars / Joseph M. Boyce
QB641 .B68 2002

A traveler's guide to Mars : the mysterious landscapes of the red planet / William K. Hartmann.
QB641 .H335 2003

Life on Mars [videorecording]
Video - Science/L

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Periodical and Newspaper Articles
To find more articles search at Google News using the words "mars exploration."

Twin Mars Rovers Signal New Age Of Exploration By Leonard David, Space.com Senior Space Writer, posted: 08:30 pm ET, 31 January 2004.

Mars Exploration picks up speed By MIKE TONER appeared in the Atlantic Journal - Constitution, 31 January 2004.

Mars Exploration Rover Discovers Layered Bedrock By David McAlary, Washington, 27 January 2004.

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Government Documents

NASA facts provides a three page description with illustrations of the Mars Exploration Rover with a mission overview and goals.

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Local Resources: Agencies, Organizations and Information

Connecticut Aviation and Space Education Council (CASEC)
23 Nutmeg Ave.
Enfield, CT 06082
Tel: 203-745-5020
Officers:
Joseph Murtari, President CASEC CT email: joe@murtari.com
Rol Murrow, Chairman NASEA CT email: rol.murrow@evac.org

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