- SPACE.com: Landing Sites for Mars Exploration Rovers Identified
Article covering the process of picking places on the Mars surface that are scientifically rewarding.
www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/mars_2003_landings_011019.html
- NOVA: Mars Dead or Alive
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Companion to the documentary on NASA's twin rovers sent to determine if the red planet ever had conditions suitable for life.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mars/about.html
- 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 Explorer Rover 2003 Landing Sites
Features an interactive data map display from NASA.
marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/dataViz
- Kennedy Space Center: Mars Exploration Rovers
Overview of the mission in which two robot geologists, Spirit and Opportunity, travel to Mars. Features launch coverage, multimedia and image gallery, and notes on mission processing activities.
www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/mera
- Mars Panoramas, The
Interactive panaromic images from the Mars rover missions Spirit, Opportunity, and Pathfinder.
www.panoramas.dk/mars/index.html
- Spaceflight Now: Mars Exploration Rovers
Coverage of the missions of the twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Includes pictures, video clips, and archive of past news stories.
spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera
- Destination: MARS
Includes an overview of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Rover Mission along with details on the twin robotic field geologists' search for the planet's water history.
ti.arc.nasa.gov/destination/mars
- First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers
Offers an overview of the 2001 meeting.
www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/mer2003
- Mars Exploration Rovers - Explore the Cosmos | The Planetary Society
Learn about the twin Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) -- Spirit and Opportunity -- that were designed to study the history of water on Mars at their landing sites and to uncover geologic clues about whether Mars had any environments wet enough in the past to have been hospitable to life.
planetary.org/explore/topics/mars_exploration_rovers
- Free Spirit - JPL NASA
Follow the efforts to free the Spirit Mars Rover from a sand trap where its wheels spots have sunk into the Martian soil.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit
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