NASA’s Mars Exploration Program

Mars for Kids
Welcome to Mars! Click on games to visit Virtual Mars, take a Mars adventure, play the 3D Mars Rover Game, find your weight on Mars, or play the Mars word find. Click on ‘Learn More’ to access the section on Mars for Students, Pop Culture Mars, or Mars: Extreme Planet. In the Activities section you will find the Pathfinder Model, Mars Global Survey Model, Mars Odyssey Model, A Little Rock on Mars, a Space Maze, and you can also play connect the dots or create a Topo map.



Mars for Students
Learn how a team of students and teachers in the Athena Student Interns Program is working one-on-one with scientists to prepare for research and discovery on Mars. Also find out how, through the Mars Exploration Student Data Team, teachers and students are helping to characterize different aspects of Mars. Get homework help, create a colony on Mars, talk to scientists, build a Mars spacecraft, and view images of this fascinating planet.

Mars for Educators
This special section just for instructors has a full list of professional development workshops at various locations around the country. Check out the collection of Mars resources including the Mars Activity Book and an Earth / Mars comparison poster with activities on the back. You can also participate in four different Mars Education Programs including Imagine Mars, which teaches students science through the arts, letters, and humanities; Mars Students Imaging Project which allows students to use a camera on the Odyssey orbiter to take their own image of the red planet and analyze it using the scientific method; Mars Robotics Education a program in development that aligns with technology-education standards; and Mars Educator Workshops.

Mars for Press
Get current press releases, which provide the latest information from NASA about present and future missions to Mars, and behind-the-scene views of Mars exploration. You can also get press kits that are prepared before major spacecraft missions and offer detailed background on the mission. Fact sheets provide overviews of Mars missions which are brief, but relevant. Make use of the high-resolution images and videos, and get newsroom contacts for further requests.

Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration