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NSF Home Page http://www.nsf.gov
Main Home Page for the National Science Foundation with links to their various programs, press releases, funding opportunites and NSF publications.
NASA Home Page http://www.nasa.gov
Main Home Page for NASA with links to NASA projects and resources.
NASA Office of Space Science http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/oss/
The Office of Space Science is responsible for all of NASA's research from the middle levels of Earth's atmosphere to the edge of the universe.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's homepage where you will find links to the latest missions, science news and educational resources.
Mars Exploration Program http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov
The latest information on Mars missions excellent background information on Mars.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Homepage for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the latest information on NASA research and missions.
DePaul Space Science Center for Education and Outreach http://analyzer.depaul.edu/NASABroker/
DePaul is part of NASA's Office of Space Science's support system for education and outreach. You will find information about their programs and resources.
Athena Instrument Site http://athena.cornell.edu/
Cornell University's Mars Exploration Rover site where you will find the latest information about the mission including terrific updates, information about some of the people involved with the mission, information about the instrument package on board the rovers and an excellent gallery of images of the Mars Exploration Rovers.
Arizona State University Mars K-12 Education Program http://marsed.asu.edu/
Arizona State University's education website where you will find information about Mars, activities and opportunites for workshops on Mars.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
Homepage for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory with the latest information on NASA research and missions.
DePaul Space Science Center for Education and Outreach http://analyzer.depaul.edu/NASABroker/
DePaul is part of NASA's Office of Space Science's support system for education and outreach. You will find information about their programs and resources.
Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites http://marsoweb.arc.nasa.gov/landingsites/
The place to find the latest information about the possible landing sites for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission.
MOC Images for MER 2003 Landing Sites http://marsoweb.arc.nasa.gov/landingsites/mer2003/mocs/
Images from the Mars Orbiter Camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor of the possible landing sites for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission.
2003 Mars Exploration Rovers Mini-thermal Emission Spectrometer http://tes.asu.edu/MINITES/
Website for the Mini-TES which will use thermal infrared spectrometry to characterize the Martian surface.
Pancam http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/athena/pancam.html
Pancam, one of the six instruments on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, views the surface around the rover in stereo and color, using two high-resolution cameras.
The Incredible Egg-Drop Challenge http://passporttoknowledge.com/mer/involved/eggdrop.html
This popular activity with students challenges students to use specific materials to land a raw egg safely on Earth to simulate the soft landing of the rovers on Mars. Originally used during the 1996-1997 LIVE FROM MARS Project which followed the Mars Pathfinder Mission.
Build a Robot out of Humans
http://passporttoknowledge.com/mer/involved/robot.html
Students explore the difficulty of building a robot that can operate on Mars, where the time delay caused by distance means it must function without direct and continual human control
Mars Activites: Teacher Resources and Classroom Activities Book http://msip.asu.edu/pages/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf
The Lava Layering Activity that was seen in the broadcast and other activities for a unit on Mars.
Mars Student Imaging Project http://msip.asu.edu/pages/curriculum/curriculum.html
Students will be able to develop a project using the THEMIS camera on board the 2001 Mars Odyssey Spacecraft, submit their proposal and if their proposal is accepted actually collect data using the real THEMIS camera.
Red Rover Goes to Mars http://www.planetary.org/rrgtm/
Read about eight students from around the world who had the opportunity to travel to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to guide a robotic rover through a large-scale simulated Martian terrain.
Mars Pathfinder Mission http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/default.html
This page takes you to the Mars Pathfinder websites on the day of the landing on Mars and at the end of the mission.
MOC Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/june2000/
Images from the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera showing the possibility of water on Mars.
Mars Surprise http://spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast22jun_2.htm?list
High resolution images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft reveal features that suggest current sources of liquid water at or near the surface of the red planet.
Mars Meteorites http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/
Images and information on the latest Mars meteorites found on Earth.
The Physics and Biology of Making Mars Habitable http://web.mit.edu/mmm/www/summary.html
A summary of the October 10-11, 2000 conference on sending humans to Mars.
NASA's Planetary Photojournal http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
A collection of Mars images from the different Missions and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Red Planet Connection http://tes.asu.edu/EDUCATION/rpconline/index.html
Online newsletter published by the Arizona State University Mars K-12 Education Program written on a student level with a teacher's edition.
