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.
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.
Some other places you can find information on Mars include:
Course page last revised on July 31, 1997