About This Picture

This is a picture of part of the surface of Mars, taken from one of the Viking landers. The Viking landers landed on Mars in 1976, and sent back a considerable amount of data before being shut off.

Related Courses

PtyS 195 (Colloquium 4), being offered this semester, is all about the exploration of Mars.

Colloquium 2 of PtyS 195 deals with life on Mars, in both fact and fiction.

PtyS 106 is the regularly-offered course that talks the most about Mars.

PtyS 403, PtyS 407, and PtyS 411 also partly deal with Mars.

More Information

Some other places you can find information on Mars include:

The Nine Planets: Mars
The Nine Planets is a tour of the solar system, created and maintained by SEDS, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space.

Views Of The Solar System: Mars
Views Of The Solar System is a collection of images and facts created and maintained by Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Course page last revised on July 31, 1997