Mysteries of Mars

Recommended for Grades 6 - 8 Supports U.S. curriculum standards of science, social studies, global studies, and math.

Experience the search for water and life (past or present) on Mars continues as the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers explore Mars.

• SALTY SEA COVERED PART OF MARS: 'Excellent' Site to Search for Past Life
• MYSTERY OVER - RED PLANET WAS A WET PLANET
• Rover finds evidence that life on Mars was possible
• Mars outlook: wet and hot, with possible scattered life

Links for Teachers/Students - School Projects, and the Nasa Mission Websites.

• Mars Rovers JPL NASA
• Arizona State University (ASU) Mars Student Imaging Project - Students Work with Mission Scientists
• ASU Mars Science Education Activities
• ASU Mars Education Program
• Cornell's Athena Rovers Science Team
• NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
• ASU's Spirit Rover Mini-TES Instrument
• Mars 2001 Odyssey Thermal Emission Imaging
• Malin Space Science Systems

This image taken by Opportunity, shows a close-up of the rock NASA scientists have named El Capitan. The rock, which is pocked with indentations about a centimetre long, has the distinctive texture familiar to geologists as the sites where crystals of salt minerals form within rocks that sit in briny water, NASA says.

Put on Your 3D Goggles - Spherules Lend Further Evidence of Water!

Evidence that at one time in the past a large body of flowing salt water formed these sedimentary rocks - Where is the Martian Olympic Swim Team?