Mars, the fourth planet from the sun. Could humans find ourselves living there someday? What makes it red in color, and how like Earth is it really? Why does it play a role in so many mythologies (and alien stories)? For thousands of years, the enduring and mysterious appeal of Mars has reflected our hopes and dreams (and, at times, our fears). What do you think YOU could learn from the Red Planet?
Can Mars exploration improve life on Earth?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/could-mars-exploration-improve-life-on-earth/
Sibling Rivalry: A Mars/Earth Comparison
https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/Sibling_Rivalry.html
Overview of Search for Life on Mars
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00108/full
Interview: Countdown to Mars -Dr. Kennda Lynch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FC-s4MXvE
Interview: Countdown to Mars: Dr. Mackenzie Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d1OGKahk4g
Acid saline lakes are good Mars analogues
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23971647/
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JE003687
The enduring and mysterious appeal of Mars
https://www.powells.com/searchresults?keyword=sirens+of+mars
Interactive Map of Mars - the geographic features and objects humans have left there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Features_and_artificial_objects_on_Mars
Halite from South Australia suggests Mars landscape.
https://www.mindat.org/locentries.php?m=1804&p=12222
The origin of acidity in southern Western Australia
https://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/25/6/article/i1052-5173-25-6-4.htm
Revealed: How a spacecraft will bring Mars rocks to Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01114-0
Listen to the InSight Explorer Journey in this podcast from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
https://soundcloud.com/nasa/sets/on-a-mission
BBC Radio 4 explores the Red Planet of our dreams… and maybe, our futures…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04t360q
At Home on Mars
https://www.hillarys.co.uk/static/home-on-mars/
Mars Teacher Activity Resources
https://mars.nasa.gov/classroom/pdfs/MSIP-MarsActivities.pdf
Grand Challenges: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
STEM, STEAM, STEMX, STEMD and beyond..
ERC Grand Challenges: For project design, for inquiry, for activism.
