• The Case for Mars Conference
  • Proceedings, Tables of Contents and How to Obtain CFM Proceedings
  • Reading Lists, and Technical Articles
  • Add your name to the Case for Mars Mailing List
  • Program and Abstracts - The Case for Mars VI Conference, July 17-20, 1996

Gullies	Seepage	Frost on Craters	Layered Outcrops	Sediment Layers
Photos: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

• Report Offers Evidence of Ancient Life on Mars - Dennis Bazylinski, Microbiology, Iowa State University
• "Evidence of Recent Groundwater Seepage and Surface Runoff On Mars"
  by Mike Malin and Ken Edgett, published in Science, June 30, 2000
• Mars Global Surveyor Images at Malin Space Science Systems

NASA MARS SITES

• NASA Exploring Mars - JPL's home for Mars exploration.
• Mars Exploration Program - This JPL site is also a great resource for educators.
• Summary of Mars Missions by NASA CMEX
• Summary of Mars Missions - Includes short description of NASA Mars Missions in a table.

PAST MISSIONS

• Viking - Viking I and II spacecraft were launched in 1975 and gave us a great perspective of Mars.
  Recent online publications: The Martian Landscape, and Viking Orbiter Views of Mars
• Mars Pathfinder - Giving us over 16,000 images of Mars, this mission ended in 1997.

CURRENT MISSIONS

• Mars Global Surveyor - Full of images of the only US Mars mission currently in operation.
• Planet-B - A Japanese orbiter that is to study the upper atmosphere of Mars.

UPCOMING MISSIONS

• Mars Express - An ESA orbiter with lander Beagle II scheduled for launch in 2003. Landing site
• Mars Surveyor 2001 / Mars Odyssey - A NASA orbiter to study Life, Climate, Resources, and Water. Launch Apr 7, 2001, Arrival Oct 20, 2001.
• Mars Exploration Rover 2003 - NASA will send two rovers to Mars in 2003.

News

• MARSBUGS: The Electronic Astrobiology Newsletter
• Mars News run by Puget Sound Mars Society
• Martian Chronicle, David Dubov, ed., JPL

Space News

• SpaceViews, online space news from the National Space Society
• Space.com, space news, entertainment, education
• SpaceRef, space news, information, portal
• SpaceDaily, space news and portal site
• Universe Today, space exploration news
• Aivon Online, newspaper from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Activism

• Operation President, Mars Society

• thinkmars	Sign the Think Mars Petition!

Mars Images

• MSSS Image Archive with over 25,000 images from the Mars Orbital Camera
• Hubble images: Mars95 jpg, txt; Mars95-3 jpg, txt; Annimation mpg.
• PDS Imaging Node, PDS Mars Navigator.
• Mars Images, Data from PDS Catalog, NASA JPL.
• Mars Atlas, USGS maps of Mars, High-resolution Viking Orbiter images, ARC.
• MSSS Viking Image Archive, Malin Space Science Systems, Inc.
• Mars Images on CD available from NSSDC CD-ROM Catalog, NASA GSFC.

MarsWatch 1996-1997

• Images of Mars Submitted by Astronomers
• Mars Watch FTP Site, Upload/Download Images

Information About Mars

• Mars Current Location in Relation to Earth, BCSP. (alt).
• Earth-Mars Movie, 1999-2006, BCSP. (Quicktime 2.1+ req'd). (alt)
• Mars Fact Sheet, NSSDC.
• Martian Weather Report from STARLab, Stanford University
• Mars Today, Current conditions on Mars and its relationship to Earth.
• Planet Mars, Information provided by SEDS
• Views of the Solar System: Mars, Calvin J. Hamilton.
• Planets in the Solar System, MIT
• The Nine Planets: Mars by Bill Arnett, Univ. of Arizona.
• Mars from Welcome to the Planets, NASA JPL
• Space Calendar, Astronomical Events

Technology

• Mars Network Communication and Navigation Infrastructure Studies at JPL
• NASA Human Spaceflight Knowledge and technology for human exploration of Mars
• Rocky 7 Prototype Mars Rover

Terraforming

• Planetary Engineering Bibliography - Rev. 1995
• The Terraforming Information Pages - Martyn Fogg
• The Physics and Biology of Making Mars Habitable - NASA Ames
• Meet Conan the Bacterium Humble microbe could become "The Accidental (Space) Tourist" - Science@NASA
• Red Colony.com - Terraforming and Colonization
• Alien Planet Designer - Terraforming Simulation

Conferences

• Mars Society Convention 2000 Toronto, Canada, August 10-13, 2000
• Mars Together Conference, Stanford University, June 19-21, 1995.

Education

• The Rationale for Exploring Mars, Dr. Michael Duke, Johnson Space Center
• NASA-CMEX Human Mission Table
- 2009 Reference Mission Overview
• Romance to Reality, An annotated bibliography of the moon and Mars exploration and settlement plans, by David S.F. Portree
• The Mars Academy, An online collaborative project for high school students. Coordinated by Gabriel F. Rshaid, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The Mars Project - An Educational Space Simulation of a Journey to Mars
• Live from Mars, NASA Ames.
• Teachers Guide to Mars from Live from Mars
• Live from Earth and Mars, Online Educational Resources Based on Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Mars Artwork

• Mars Exploration Artwork by Carter Emmart
• Mars Exploration Scenario, from Case for Mars II Workshop, 1984.
• West To Mars, MarsWest Collaborative Project Organization

Research Centers

• Center for Mars Exploration, NASA ARC.
• Mars Mission Research Center, North Carolina State University.
• The Danish Mars Project - at the Niels Bohr Intitute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics

Foundations

• The Earth and Space Foundation offers grants to exploration groups and runs a series of prizes for the Exploration of Mars.

Organizations and Services

• Malin Space Science Systems
• Astrovision - A Precursor to Commercial Space Exploration
• SDR&I, Space Data Resources and Information
• Starport.com, Information about Mars

Online Publications and Collections

• New Mars - a journal of the Martian frontier, publication of the Mars Society.
• The Whole Mars Catalog, Keith Cowing
• Red, Green and Blue MarsSite, Frans Blok, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Societies

• The American Astronautical Society
• DSES Deep Space Exploration Society
• The Mars Society, Robert Zubrin President
• Living Universe Foundation
• IAF, The International Astronautical Federation
• NSS National Space Society
• The Planetary Society
• The Space Frontier Foundation
• SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

• thinkmars	A business concept for the exploration of Mars

Publications and Publishers

• JPLTRS Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Reports
• NTRS NASA Technical Reports Server
• Univeldt, Inc. Publisher for The American Astronautical Society

NASA NSCORT Programs

• NSCORT for Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS), Purdue Univeristy
• NSCORT for Space Environmental Health, University of Colorado and University of Rochester.

Contact

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