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2009 Reference Mission Overview

http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/MarsNews/Missions/human_missions/Human_Mission_Table.html

NASA Mars Mission

http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/

Project helping NASA to date Martian land areas by counting craters. Information on how to participate.

http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

Realistic, interactive, 3D walk-though of a Mars base desgined for the first humans to land on Mars including a Mars habitat, greenhouse, Mars car and robot rovers.

Human Exploration of Mars

http://exploration.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/docs/MarsRef/contents.htm

The Reference Mission of the NASA Mars Exploration Study Team.

JPL Mars Exploration Program

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/

Various sections: Extreme Planet, Follow the Water, Mars Rocks, Life on Mars?, The Martian Mystique and Just for Kids.

Mars In the Mind of Earth

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cerebus/mars/

A Set of Ongoing Bibliographies of Terran Literature concerning the Planet Mars

Mission to Mars IPRO

http://www.iit.edu/~mars/main.html

Reports on a project undertaken to design and plan a manned mission to Mars utilizing existing space technology and off the shelf components. Interdisciplinary effort by students from the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Chicago-Kent College of Law.

NASA Center for Mars Exploration

http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/

Various resources on Mars Exploration with an educational emphasis.

Polar Landing Site for a First Mars Expedition

http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/pole.html

Discusses the reasons why a site on the Martian pole might be the best place to land a first expedition to Mars.

Romance to Reality

http://www.marsinstitute.info/rd/faculty/dportree/rtr/

moon & Mars expedition & settlement plans

Russian Mars 96 Mission

http://www.iki.rssi.ru/mars96/

Detailed description of failed Mars exploratory mission