Exploration
Links
Clickworkers
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/
Project helping NASA to date Martian land areas by counting craters. Information on how to participate.
Explore the Planet Mars
http://www.exploremarsnow.org/
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.
Human Exploration of Mars
http://exploration.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/docs/MarsRef/contents.htm
The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team.
JPL Mars Exploration Program
Various sections: Extreme Planet, Follow the Water, Mars Rocks, Life on Mars?, The Martian Mystique and Just for Kids.
Mars In the Mind of Earth
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cerebus/mars/
A Set of Ongoing Bibliographies of Terran Literature concerning the Planet Mars
Mission to Mars IPRO
http://www.iit.edu/~mars/main.html
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.
NASA Center for Mars Exploration
Various resources on Mars Exploration with an educational emphasis.
Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition
http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/pole.html
Discusses the reasons why a site on the Martian pole might be the best place to land a first expedition to Mars.
Romance to Reality
http://members.aol.com/dsfportree/explore.htm
moon & Mars expedition & settlement plans
Russian Mars 96 Mission
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mars96/
Detailed description of failed Mars exploratory mission