The Case for Mars

International Conference for the Exploration and Colonization of Mars

• News about Life on Mars
• Statement by Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator (Release 96-159
• NASA Briefing on Discovery of Possible Early Martian Life Aug 7, 1996 (95k)
• Meteorite Yields Evidence of Primitive Life on Early Mars (Release 96-160)
• Summary and Complete Article from Science, "Search for Past Life on Mars: Possible Relic Biogenic Activity in Martian Meteorite ALH84001"
• Images of Meteorite ALH84001, Mars Meteorite Home Page
• Recommendations of Mars Expeditions Strategy Group

• The Case for Mars Conference
• Program and Abstracts - The Case for Mars VI Conference, July 17-20, 1996
• Reading Lists, and Articles
• Add your name to the Case for Mars Mailing List
• Mars Literacy Quiz and Summary of Near-Term Robotic Missions
• 20th Anniversary of Viking Landing on Mars

Other Mars Resources

Mars Missions

• Mars Global Surveyor, TES Instrument
• Mars 96 - Russia
• Mars Pathfinder
• Planet B - Japan
• Mars Surveyor 98
• The New Millenium project

Information and Images

• Hubble images: Mars95 jpg, txt; Mars95-3 jpg, txt; Annimation mpg.
• Mars Multi-Scale Map, LANL/NASA PDS/USGS/NSSDC - Select location, zoom, download
• 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.
• Raw Viking Images of Mars on CD-ROM, NASA ARC.
• Mars Images 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 Fact Sheet, NSSDC.
• The Daily Martian Weather Report from STARLab, Stanford University
• Views of the Solar System: Mars, LANL.
• Planets in the Solar System, MIT
• The Nine Planets: Mars by Bill Arnett, Univ. of Arizona.
• Mars from Welcome to the Planets, NASA JPL

Conferences

• The Third Annual International Lunar and Mars Exploration Conference,
  International Space Enterprises (ISE) and the National Space Society (NSS), San Diego, CA, Nov 17-20
• Mars Together Conference, Stanford University, June 19-21, 1995.
• Space Calendar, Current Conferences

News

• Martian Cronicle, David Dubov, ed., JPL
• Aivon Online Newspaper - Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Education

• The Mars Project - An Educational Space Simulation of a Journey to Mars
• Live from Mars - Issue #4, A Passport to Knowledge Project
• Live from Mars, Online Educational Resources Based on Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Research Centers

• Center for Mars Exploration, NASA ARC.
• Mars Mission Research Center, North Carolina State University.

Foundations

• The 2111 Foundation for Exploration offers grants to exploration groups and runs a series of prizes for the Exploration of Mars.

Organizations and Services

• Mars Direct Home Page, Zubrin Papers
• SDR&I, Space Data Resources and Information
• Alien Planet Designer - Terraforming Simulation

Societies

• DSES Deep Space Exploration Society
• First Millennial Foundation
• NSS National Space Society
• The Planetary Society
• The Space Frontier Foundation
• SEDS Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

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.

Address

The Case for Mars
P.O. Box 4877
Boulder, Colorado 80306 U.S.A.

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