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Mars
at NASA/JPL. Includes Mars' planetary profile and vital statistics.
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/mars.htm

NSSDC Photo Gallery: Mars
at NASA/JPL. Includes Mars' planetary profile and vital statistics.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html

Mars
From The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html

The Mars Academy
An educational collaborative project to study the problems involved in the design of a manned mission to the Red Planet.
http://www.marsacademy.com/

Destination: MARS
Information, animations and a set of themes illustrating various facets of the red planet.
http://www.bw.qc.ca/mars

The Whole Mars Catalog
An online guide to Mars.
http://www.reston.com/astro/mars/

Haughton-Mars Project
NASA/Ames research project to explore Haughton Crater on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic, a Mars analogue.
http://www.arctic-mars.org/

MarsNews.com
information resource on Mars missions, technology, and the search for life on the red planet.
http://www.marsnews.com

New Mars - A Journal of the Martian Frontier
a Journal of the Martian Frontier, offering news and perspectives.
http://www.newmars.com/

The Mission To Mars
Collection of selected resources and information about the mission of man kind to explore the ever mysterious red planet.
http://www.themissiontomars.com/

View from the Mars Polar Lander
A java applet showing the horizon view from the site of the Mars Polar Lander. The user can set the time and date and observe the position of the sun and the earth from the landing site, along with other information.
http://www.geocities.com/~newgeneration/mpl

Archives of Images and Tables for Mars Thermospheres
Recent model results that illustrate the thermal, compositional and dynamical responses of the upper atmospheres of Venus, Earth, and Mars to solar EUV-UV flux
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~sengel/thermo.html

NASA's Mars Topic Tracker
Educational resources for the planet Mars including facts, pictures of Mars, maps, Mars exploration missions, and educational materials.
http://mars.tracker.nasa.gov/

Martian Chronicles Links
Contains links to informational Mars sites. Also contains informative links on Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.
http://www.geocities.com/cloud9rh

the Darian Defrost Calendar
An interactive space-time distortion that takes you to the 22nd century, in which Mars is fully terraformed.
http://www.geocities.com/fra_nl

Explore Mars
Educational site with historical information, missions details and an online database for more than 1400 of the named features on Mars.
http://www.astrodigital.org/mars/

MSSS Mars Image Release Directory
From the Mars Orbiter Camera aboard Mars Global Surveyor.
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/

Mars Links
Images, life on Mars, news, missions, terraforming, conferences, Mars paraphernalia, Mars fiction on line, nonfiction, societies, and the face.
http://www.sff.net/people/ckanderson/mars.htp

Red Colony.com - The Future of Mars Today
Learn about colonization and terraforming with the latest news, images, and chat.
http://www.redcolony.com/

Mars Explorer
General introductory information on Mars.
http://www.geocities.com/spanky_stott/

Mars
Views of the Solar System, Calvin J. Hamilton.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm

Mars
From ORRERY, the Solar System in Action.
http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/mars.html

Mars in the Mind of Earth
Bibliographies of Terran literature concerning the planet Mars.
http://www.umich.edu/~cerebus/mars/

Mars
NASA's Windows to the Universe.
http://windows.arc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/mars/mars.html&sn=0&art=ok&cdp=/windows3.html&cd=false&frp=/windows3.html&fr=f&sw=false&tour=&edu=mid

Virtual Mars
Devoted to considering future colonisation of Mars. Technical coverage of calendar systems.
http://www.marsengineering.com

The Mars Web Ring
No unique content but links to over 100 Mars sites - many are listed in the ODP but many aren't. Some good, some bad.
http://nav.webring.com/cgi-bin/navcgi?ring=mars;list

7 Image Browser
Salvaging information from early NASA missions stored on now-obsolete media.
http://members.tripod.com/petermasek/mariner67.html

Mars meteorite
The first picritic Martian shergottite meteorite discovered. Commercial site selling Meteorites.
http://fernlea.tripod.com/picrite.html

Think Mars - The Business of Mars
Site lobbying for Mars exploration achieved by sensible commercial enterprise
http://www.thinkmars.net

Mars 2112, restaurant:
Promotional site for a Mars-themed Restaurant
http://www.mars2112.com/

Daily Martian Weather Report
Weather by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team.
http://nova.stanford.edu/projects/mgs/dmwr.html

NASA Goddard Institute: Time on Mars
(sunside / nightside) at specified locations on Mars.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/data/mars/time/

Mars the dry planet?
Overview of Mars with interesting personal perspectives, plus photos of unusual surface features
http://mayitoredneck.50megs.com

Mars Base dot Net
Provides scientific data of various kinds such as the time on Mars, Sun and Earth rise/set, mission countdowns and news.
http://www.marsbase.net

Martian Soil
Mars related news regarding scientific exploration and popular culture.
http://www.martiansoil.com

MarsQuest Online
Interactive explorations of Mars: students can fly in 3D, launch a spacecraft, drive a rover, perform investigations.
http://www.marsquestonline.org

Mariner Mars 1971 Data Viewer - Albatross
Downloadable computer program to interactively visualise and analyse the UltraViolet Spectrometer and Television Camera from the Mariner Mars (1971) spacecraft.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/albatross/

Mars: Its History
Mars exploration and discovery from earliest times to the present.
http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/Mars.htm

Mars Data Conglomerator
Takes multiple non-homogenous data sets of Mars and combines them into meaningful views. MOLA, Viking, GEO, TES, 2D, 3D and more are provided.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/mars/

ESA's Mars Express
Latest updates, images, and videos of ESA's Mars Express mission, due for landing on Mars on December 25, 2003.
http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html

Mars for Dummies
A beginner's account of Mars. Includes some technically-oriented information.
http://www.geocities.com/supriyamishra2002

MarsHeadlines.com
News and articles including commentary and other resources.
http://www.marsheadlines.com

Mars
From The Nine Planets multimedia tour of the solar system.
http://www.nineplanets.org/mars.html

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