Mars Exploration
Links
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
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.
Russian Mars 96 Mission
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mars96/
Detailed description of failed Mars exploratory mission
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.
Romance to Reality
http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/
moon & Mars expedition & settlement plans