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Mars BBCi - Space - Mars A travel guide. We recommend a summer visit, when the temperature can reach a pleasant 27ºC. Blast off on a Mars Adventure Would you like to go to Mars? What would you take to keep from getting bored on the long journey? Play the Mars Adventure game and blast off to Mars. Destination Mars Could humans explore Mars? Using inflatable habitats, producing oxygen and rocket fuel on Mars instead of lugging it all from Earth, and recycling air and water would all lighten the load. Field Trip to Mars Cosmos, the Research Robot, will help you find out how the geology of Mars compares to the state of Washington. Just click below or use the arrows to see all nine topics. Whenever it applies, images of Mars are provided for comparison. Latest News From Spirit and Opportunity Straight from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Lots of photos of Mars and of the Mars landers, Spirit and Opportunity. Let's Go to Mars You and your crew are about to blast off to Mars! Now you must decide what to take on the long journey in space. You will be allowed to take only 10 items. Maestro Headquarters On this website, you can download a scaled-down version of the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity. Updates are also available for Maestro that contain real data from Mars that you can add to your copy of Maestro. Works on recent versions of Mac, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Mars Climate Orbiter 1/24 Scale Model This detailed scale model is a construction project which is probably not appropriate for people younger than about ten years of age, depending on skill and motivation. You'll need a printer, some card stock, and a few other items listed in the assembly instructions. Mars For Kids Find your weight on Mars. Mars Fun Zone Games, activities, and special events. Learn more about Mars! Find the latest images. From NASA. Mars-inspired Children's Art Here at the Phoenix mission we love to receive art created by people inspired by Mars. So, whether you are a kid or an adult (or anything in between) we would love to display your Martian art on our website. Mars Retrograde Every two years or so, there are a couple of months when Mars' position from night to night seems to change direction and move east to west. This strange behavior was very puzzling to early skywatchers. Did the planet really stop, back up, change its mind, and then continue to move forward? Did it have some weird, mystical meaning? Mars Rover Blog If the two Mars Rovers could write about what they see and do, this is what their blog or diary would look like. Mars Word Find Game The words in the list on this page are hidden in the jumble of letters. Words may be frontwards, backwards, upside-down, or diagonal. Just hit New Game to generate an entirely new word search. NASA'S M2K4: Roaming the Red Planet "Hey, we're on the planet!" Flashy interactive site about the 2004 rovers on Mars. Lots of pictures. THE site about Mars. Phoenix Mars Mission May 25, 2008 NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars today to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander's robotic arm. Red Rover Goes to Mars Project Crack the Secret Mars code. Follow the adventures of Astrobots Biff Starling and Sandy Moondust as they explore Mars aboard Spiritand Opportunity! You can drive a LEGO rover a thousand miles away by connecting to a Mars Station. More fun activities. Rock Around the World Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Send in a rock collected by you from your region of the world, and we will use a special tool like the one on the rover to tell you what it's made of. Then everyone can compare their rocks to the ones found on Mars. Steve the Cat Visits Mars Steve has always dreamed of putting the first paw prints on Mars. Steve has always felt that it is much more logical to send a cat, instead of a human, first. A cat's small size makes the flight hardware much smaller and lighter. Also, the sands of Mars make for one big litter box!

Explore Mars Mars and the Search for Life by Elaine Scott Elaine Scott takes readers on a journey through history and space and then into an exciting future as she explores the growing body of evidence that water---and therefore the potential for life---was present on Mars at one time. Even more titillating, the possibility of human habitation now hovers on the horizon, maybe within the next 30 years---an exciting prospect for young readers, some of whom may be among those first colonists. Mars True Books by Elaine Landau Along with a generous selection of paintings and enhanced-color photos, readers will get a summary of our developing knowledge of each planet, plus a glimpse of plans for future exploratory missions. Both accounts close with lists of books, Web sites, and places to visit. Max Goes to Mars A Science Adventure with Max the Dog by Jeffrey Bennett Max gets ready to go on the first human mission to Mars. This time, his mission is to help the human crew in the search for life on Mars, while providing the comfort that only a dog can offer on a journey that lasts more than two years. With sidebars on science lessons, this picture book also has a take-home message about the beauty and fragility of planet Earth. Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. A classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage.   There's Nothing to Do on Mars by Chris Gall When Davey Martin's family moves to Mars, he discovers that there's nothing to do--at least until he and his robot dog Polaris learn to seize the spirit of adventure.

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