- NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended
NASA mission news: Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample.
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/news/phoenix-20080731.html
- 2001 Mars Odyssey@
Learn about NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey, an orbiter making global observations of Mars. Sites discuss the Odyssey's mission to detect health hazards for future human space explorers and search for water and evidence of life-sustaining environments.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Robotic_Missions/2001_Mars_Odyssey
- Mars Exploration Rover Mission@
Learn about NASA's 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. Sites feature extensive photo galleries and mission updates from the Red Planet.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Robotic_Missions/Mars_Exploration_Rover_Mission
- Special Report: June 20, 2000 Evidence of Water on Mars
Series of SPACE.com articles relating to NASA's announcement of discovering evidence of water on Mars.
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_water_000620.html
- Mars Global Surveyor@
See photographs of Mars surface and learn about the Red Planet's weather from data gathered by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.
dir.yahoo.com/.../Robotic_Missions/Mars_Global_Surveyor
- Case of the Missing Mars Water
Science@NASA article regarding signs of heavy flooding and mysterious valley networks on Mars.
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast05jan_1.htm
- Water Ice on Mars Confirmed - SPACE.com
SPACE.com article about the Phoenix Mars Lander's confirmation of the existence of water ice on Mars.
www.space.com/missionlaunches/080731-phoenix-update.html
- Once Upon a Water Planet
Science@NASA 2002 article summarizing the mounting evidence that water lies beneath the Martian terrain.
science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/12mar_waterplanet.htm
- Mars-Ice.org Consortium
Learn about Martian ice and the different regions - North pole, Tharsis region, and South pole - where it is present of the Red Planet. From the USGS Astrogeology Team and Arizona State University.
www.mars-ice.org
- Mars Orbiter Camera Images Suggest Recent Sources of Liquid Water on Mars
See the images of the gullies on Martian cliffs and crater walls that were captured in a small number of high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor, suggesting that liquid water has seeped onto the surface of Mars in the geologically recent past.
www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/june2000
- Canyons of Mars, From Silicone Dust Rivers?
Personal hypothesis that the canyons of Mars may have been eroded by rivers of silicone dust made from silica reacted to an ancient methane atmosphere.
www.webspawner.com/users/theory
- Is There Water on Mars
(PDF)
NASA Educator Guide explores the question of whether there is water on Mars.
www.nasa.gov/pdf/58223main_Is.There.Water.on.Mars.pdf
- NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
See the Mars Global Surveyor photographs that have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars, suggesting that water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.
marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/20061206a.html
- Water on Mars - Mars 101
NASA discusses the evidence for past liquid water on Mars that has been gathered by previous and current Mars missions and answers questions about where this liquid water went.
150.135.110.195/mars151.php
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