... Exclusive online sidebar: Determining the Earth-Sun Distance Using Mars . Page . ... scientist recounts the long struggle to build and launch two rovers to Mars ... In late August, Mars will come as close to Earth as it ever gets. ...
... For starters, they learned an awful lot about Mars. ... Giving thought to transforming Mars. Photos courtesy of the author. ... the general problem of terraforming Mars genuinely interesting and even compelling ...
... Surveyor-ing Mars; remembering the asteroid; calling all archaeoastronomy professors ... The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin. The Planet Mars by William Sheehan. ... The Planet Mars by William Sheehan. The Rivers of Mars by Piers Bizony. ...
... B1. Background Information . Mars Exploration Rover instruments examine Mars. ... Google Mars (an expandable, explorable map of Mars): . ... Mars: Old, Relatively (a brief activity showing how geologists use images from Mars ...
... A young lava flow (dark region) lies atop an older surface on Mars. ... the age of large geologic features on Mars will also allow them to date small ... visible in images returned by the Mars Global Surveyor high-resolution cameras ...
... alike have wondered for quite a long time whether or not water exists on Mars ... that he had discovered water canals on Mars: even though he was convinced of their ... But where on Mars were the bodies of water filling the canali? ...
... 23.5 degrees . Moon . 1.5 degrees . Mars . 25.2 degrees . Jupiter . 3.1 degrees . ... Of all the planets, Mars has the seasons that most closely resemble Earth. ... Mars is tilted by 25 degrees. ...
... Mars has long captured our imaginations and remains a serious target for human ... the spacecraft were much less rigorous than they are for a destination like Mars ... to go through the same level of sanitizing that Mars rovers are subject to. back to ...
... Mars will be closer to Earth, brighter, and easier to spot in the sky in the fall of ... Mars can be thought of as a pressure cooker in runaway reverse; the boiling point of ...