Mars

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Mars : planet fourth from the sun and conspicuous for its red color — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Encyclopedia

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. Named after the Roman god of war, Mars, it is often described as the “Red Planet” as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, having surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts, and polar ice caps of Earth. The rotational period and seasonal cycles of Mars are likewise similar to those of Earth, as is the tilt that produces the seasons. Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the highest known mountain within the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon. — Wikipedia

Mars (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Mars (COSMOS: The SAO Encyclopedia of Astronomy)

An Introduction to Mars (Mars Center for Planetary Science)
Mars: Inside and Out (Lunar & Planetary Institute)

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Adventures

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Inspiration

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z imaging system to capture this 360-degree panorama of “Van Zyl Overlook,” where the rover was parked as the Ingenuity helicopter performed its first flights. The 2.4 billion-pixel panorama is made up of 992 individual images stitched together. The images were taken between April 15 and 26, 2021, or the 53rd and 64th Martian days, or sols, of the mission. — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Note: This is a 360° Video — press and hold to explore them!

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

Explore 2-D Interactive Panorama of Van Zyl Overlook (Mars, NASA Science)
Perseverance Rover (Mars, NASA Science)

Links to more 360° videos from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on YouTube.

Curiosity Mars Rover Reaches Gediz Vallis Ridge
NASA’S Perseverance Rover’s First 360 View of Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover on Vera Rubin Ridge
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover at Ogunquit Beach
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Looks Back on Murray Buttes
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover at Murray Buttes
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover at Naukluft Plateau
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover at Namib Dune

More 360° Videos (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, YouTube Playlist)

Experience Curiosity is a WebGL tool to learn abou the Curiosity Rover and its adventures in the Pahrump Hills region of the Gale Crater on Mars. Explore the highlights of the Pahrump Hills area, replay some of curiosity’s activities or take control and use a virtual rover to have a look around. — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Experience Curiosity (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Explore with Curiosity is a web application that allows you to place yourself on the Red Planet virtually. You can explore Dingo Gap, the Kimberley and Pahrump Hills – three of the many areas the rover has studied. Learn about each spot and view images taken by Curiosity. The 3D terrain is made with images from color and black-and-white cameras onboard Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. — NASA Science

Explore with Curiosity (Mars, NASA Science)

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory collaborated with Google to produce Access Mars, a free immersive experiences available for use on all desktop and mobile devices and VR/AR headsets. This includes mobile-based iOS and Android devices. Users can visit four sites that have been critical to NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission: Curiosity’s landing site; Murray Buttes; Marias Pass; and Pahrump Hills. — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

Access Mars (Google & NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

NASA’s Eyes is a freely available suite of computer visualization applications created by the Visualization Technology Applications and Development Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to render scientifically accurate views of the planets studied by JPL missions and the spacecraft used in that study. — Wikipedia

Mars (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

Mars 2020: Entry, Descent and Landing is a real-time simulation of th eentry, descent and landing of the Mars 2020 mission which landed the Perseverance rover at Jezero crater on Mars. — Mars 2020

Mars 2020 Entry, Descent and Landing (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

Experience Insight is an interactive 3D introduction to the InSight Mars mission, it’s technology and its scientific ojectives. View the deployment of the landr’s instrumnts, learn about the devices on-board or experiment using the articulated Instrument Deployment Arm. — Experience InSight

Experience Insight (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

Solar System Treks are online, browser-based portals that allow you to visualize, explore, and analyze the surfaces of other worlds using real data returned from a growing fleet of spacecraft. You can view the worlds through the eyes of many different instruments, pilot real-time 3D flyovers above mountains and into craters, and conduct measurements of surface features. Mars Trek integrates a suite of interactive tools that incorporate observations from past and current martian missions, creating a comprehensive martian research Web portal. — Mars Trek (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

NASA’s Ames Research Center (YouTube Channel)
NASA’s Ames Research Center (Official Website)

Mars Trek (Solar System Treks, NASA)

Phobos Trek is a NASA web-based portal for exploration of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons, with a growing collection of data from such missions as NASA’s Mars Express and Viking. Phobos Trek’s new interface provides greatly improved navigation, 3D visualization, fly-overs, performance, and reliability. It also provides a set of tools including 3D printing, elevation profile and distance calculation. — Phobos Trek (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

Phobos Trek (NASA’s Eyes, NASA’s JPL & Cal Tech)

The Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization completed a 5.7 terapixel mosaic of the surface of Mars rendered at 5.0 m/px. Each pixel in the mosaic is about the size of a typical parking space, providing unprecedented resolution of the martian surface at the global scale. The mosaic covers 99.5% of Mars from 88°S to 88°N. The pixels that make up the mosaic can all be mapped back to their source data, providing full traceability for the entire mosaic. All data in the mosaic come from the Context Camera (CTX) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). — Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualizatio

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

Interactive Mosaic Uses NASA Imagery to Show Mars in Vivid Detail (NASA Jet Propulsion)
Global CTX Mosaic of Mars (Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization)

This story has an embedded Mars landing game!
Try Landing InSight on Mars (Without Exploding) (Rhett Allain, Wired)

Airbus VR Experience – Mars 360 Release (Inside Infinity, YouTube 360° Video)

Mars (Astrum, YouTube Playlist)

Talks about Mars (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)
Articles about Mars (Big Think)

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Innovation

After 1,000 Martian days of exploration, NASA’s Perseverance rover is studying rocks that show several eras in the history of a river delta billions of years old. Scientists are investigating this region of Mars, known as Jezero Crater, to see if they can find evidence of ancient life recorded in the rocks. Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley provides a guided tour of a richly detailed panorama of the rover’s location in November 2023, taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument. — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

Perseverance’s 360° View From Airey Hill (Mars, NASA Science)
Perseverance Rover (Mars, NASA Science)

Science

NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the first-ever views of Mars that showcase the curving horizon and layers of atmosphere, similar to what an astronaut sees of Earth from the International Space Station. While there are no astronauts yet at Mars, this view gives us a sense of what they might see: The series of panoramic images was taken from an altitude of about 250 miles (400 kilometers), the same altitude at which the space station flies above Earth. These new images, which capture gauzy layers of clouds and dust, will help scientists better understand the Martian atmosphere. — NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

Mars Odyssey (NASA Science)
2001 Mars Odyssey (Wikipedia)

Mars Exploration Program (NASA)
Humans to Mars (NASA)
Mars (NASA Science)

Mars (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, YouTube Playlist)
The Mars Report (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, YouTube Playlist)

Mars Videos (ViewSpace, Space Telescope Science Institute)

Mars (Planetary Society)
Mars (Lunar & Planetary Institute)

Mars (Eric Weisstein’s World of Astronomy, Wolfram Research)
Mars (Wolfram Alpha)
Mars Missions (Wolfram Alpha)

Commerce

Entrepreneurship

Mars Campaigns (Kickstarter)
Mars Campaigns (Indiegogo)

Product

Mars Gifts (Zazzle)

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Preservation

History

Early records of Mars’ observation date back to the ancient Egyptian astronomers in the 2nd millennium BCE. Chinese records about the motions of Mars appeared before the founding of the Zhou Dynasty (1045 BCE). Observations of the position of Mars were made by Babylonian astronomers who developed arithmetic techniques to predict the future position of the planet. The ancient Greek philosophers and Hellenistic astronomers developed a geocentric model of the planet’s motions. Measurements of Mars’ angular diameter can be found in ancient Greek and Indian texts. In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model for the Solar System in which the planets follow circular orbits about the Sun. This was revised by Johannes Kepler, yielding an elliptic orbit for Mars that more accurately fitted the observational data. The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610. — Wikipedia

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (YouTube Channel)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Official Website)

World Science Festival (YouTube Channel)
World Science Festival (Official Website)

Mars Exploration History (NASA Science)

Library

DDC: 523.43 Mars (Library Thing)
Subject: Mars (Library Thing)

Subject: Mars (Open Library)

LCC: QB 641 Mars (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QB 641 Mars (Library of Congress)
Subject: Mars (Library of Congress)

Subject: Mars (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

Mars in a Minute (NASAJPL Edu, YouTube Playlist)
NASA JPL Edu (Official Website)

Mars in a Minute (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, YouTube Playlist)

Mars – Level 1 (StarChild, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)
Mars – Level 2 (StarChild, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)

All About Mars (Space Place, NASA)

Mars (Science Trek)
Mars (Cosmos4Kids)

Mars Resources (Staci L. Tiedeken, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)

Mars (Crash Course Astronomy, YouTube Video)

Modern Views of Mars (Introduction to Astronomy, Wolfgang H. Berger, UC San Diego)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Community

Organization

The Mars Society
Mars Section (British Astronomical Association)

News

Mars (Nova Research Highlights, American Astronomical Society)
Mars (EurekaAlert, AAAS)
Mars (Astronomy Magazine)
Mars (JSTOR)
Mars (Science Daily)
Mars (Phys.org)

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