On January 3 2004, NASA landed Spirit, a six-wheeled robot, on Mars. Its identical twin, Opportunity, followed on January 24. The unmanned rovers, each weighing about 384 pounds, are robotic geologists. Their mission is to look for evidence of water. If
Exploring Mars, created by a group of scientists from Jet Propulsion Lab and University of California at Los Angeles, is a great place to start for school reports (try Mars at a Glance) or browsing for the fun of it.
Because traditional search engines takes days or weeks to add new sites, the best way to track a breaking news story is through the wire services.
NASA is well-known for the quality and quantity of their sites, and their coverage of the Mars rover missions is no exception.
"Mars is so much like the Earth that we have to go there and see what happened.
Maestro is a free downloadable version of the same software NASA uses to control the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
During June, night sky observers will be treated to a Mars opposition. About every two years, the Earth passes between the Sun and Mars such that Mars and the Sun are on opposite sides of the Earth. During an opposition, Mars rises at sunset, is visible a
My Red Planet pick of the day goes to Exploring Mars, creating by a group of scientists from Jet Propulsion Lab and University of California at Los Angeles.
Is it possible to send men to Mars? In 1997, a group of students gathered together in cyberspace to design a virtual manned mission to Mars.
Pages and pages of Mars delights await you at this educational site from the University of Michigan.
My readers always keep me informed when there is something I should see on the Net. This topic was suggested by Walter S. Arnold, a sculptor from Chicago who makes his living carving stone creatures. Silly me, I replied "There couldn't possibly be five go
The recent National Geographic - Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey has shown us that only 36% of young American adults know which two countries are fighting over the region of Kashmir. And about 11% of polled Americans (ages 18 to 24) couldn't
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