- NASA Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Provides information about the twin robot geologists, the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers, that landed on Mars in January 2004 in search of answers about the history of water on Mars. Includes mission updates and extensive photo galleries.
marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home
- NASA: One Year on Mars
Takes a look back at the year of discoveries by the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/mer-year
- Mars Rover Blog
Unofficial blog and forum following the Martian odysseys of NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
www.markcarey.com/mars
- Mini-Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES)
Provides information about the Arizona State University instrument to be a part of the Athena package on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers.
minites.asu.edu
- Sign Up for Mars!
NASA invites you to send your name to Mars on the next Mars Exploration Rover-2003 mission.
spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/2003
- Red Planet Rovers: A New Era in Mars Exploration
SPACE.com feature page providing news and background information about NASA'a Mars Exploration Rovers and ESA's Mars Express missions.
www.space.com/marsrover
- Kennedy Space Center: Virtual Launch Control Center
Provides online coverage of launch day events and mission events for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/mera/vlcc.htm
- MER-A: The Complete Spirit Mission
Article archive and multimedia collection of SPACE.com's coverage of Mars Exploration Rover-A, Spirit.
www.space.com/marsrover/spirit_archive.html
- NOVA: Welcome to Mars
Documentary following the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity from the second they crash-land on the planet to many months into their ongoing mission.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/welcome
- NASA's M2K4: Roaming the Red Planet
Discusses the lure of Mars exploration as well as its challenges. Also features images from the Red Planet and an interactive tour of the anatomy of Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity.
www.nasa.gov/externalflash/m2k4/frameset.html
- MarsQuest Online: Rover Images
Flash site featuring the latest images from NASA's twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Includes panoramas, daily image updates, closeups, and a full image library.
www.marsquestonline.org/mer
- Missions to Mars: Athena 2003
Mission will study the geology and chemistry of the planet, and Mars Sample Return and Athena are the first space projects designed to return rock samples from another planet.
athena.cornell.edu
- BBC: Exploring Mars
Features in-depth coverage of the NASA and ESA efforts to unlock the scientific mysteries of Mars.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/race_for_mars/default.stm
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission Photo Contest
See Spirit's winning photo Sunset, which captures the sun as it sinks beneath the rim of Gusev Crater, along with a dozen runners up from Opportunity as well.
marsdata1.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/photoContest/index.cfm
- Mars Explorer Rover 2003 Landing Sites
Features an interactive data map display from NASA.
marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/dataViz
- Destination: MARS
Includes an overview of the Spirit and Opportunity Rover Mission along with details on the twin robotic field geologists' search for the planet's water history.
ic.arc.nasa.gov/destination/mars
- JPL Mars Exploration Rovers
NASA's JPL offers daily mission updates along with the latest images from the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers as they explore the geology of Mars.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mer
- Kennedy Space Center: Mars Exploration Rovers
Provides an overview of the mission in which two robot geologists travel to Mars. Features launch coverage, multimedia and image gallery, and notes on mission processing activities.
www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/mera
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Wikipedia
Hyperlinked article about NASA's crewless Mars exploration mission using the rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Includes a timeline and notes on the design of the rovers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover_Mission
- Mars Exploration Rover Imagery
Presents raw and synthesized images from the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
www.lyle.org/mars
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