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About 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km per pixel - CREDIT: NASA JPL-Caltech USGS
Mars Perseverance rover
The Mars Perseverance rover will seek signs of ancient life and collect rock and soil samples for possible return to Earth.
- Dates
- Launched: July 30, 2020
- Landing: Feb. 18, 2021
- About the Perseverance mission
- NASA Mars exploration program
- NASA Perseverance Rover Landing toolkit (new content added over the coming months))
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/landing/ - Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) Graphic
https://mars.nasa.gov/internal_resources/935/
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Celebrating Perseverance’s Landing
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NASA Museum Alliance resources (log in to Museum Alliance website required)
https://informal.jpl.nasa.gov/museum/Conversations/how-are-you-celebrating-perseverance’s-landing
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NISE Network activities
- Mars rover game - Coming in January 2021
- Exploring the Solar System: Mars Rovers (included in the Explore Science: Earth & Space 2018 toolkit)
https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/exploring-solar-system-mars-rovers-2018 - Exploring the Universe: Space Guess Quest Game ( (included in the Explore Science: Earth & Space 2019 and 2020 toolkit)
https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/exploring-universe-space-guess-quest-game-2019-2020 - Pocket Solar System
https://www.nisenet.org/catalog/exploring-solar-system-pocket-solar-system - All Explore Science: Earth & Space toolkit activities
Multimedia and interactive resources
- MarsTrek
Explore all the details of the Mars, generate 3D printed models of the landscape, and download the highest resolution images available
https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/ - NASA Space Place - Explore Mars: a Mars Rover Game
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/explore-mars/en/ - NASA Space Place - Learn about Mars
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/search/MARS/
Videos
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NASA Mars in a Minute videos
thttps://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/?page=0&per_page=25&order=pub_date+desc&search=&condition_1=1%3Ais_in_resource_list&category=53%3A199 -
NASA eClips videos
https://nasaeclips.arc.nasa.gov/search/?terms=mars&playlists=ourworld,realworld,launchpad,spotlite
Printable materials
3D printing resources
- 3D printable lunar models including Apollo landing sites
https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/search/mars - Custom 3D print files can be generated using the NASA Moon Trek; users can draw bounding boxes around any areas of interest to generate output files for 3D printing of desired surface features
https://trek.nasa.gov/mars/
instructions: https://trek.nasa.gov (choose "3D printing" from menu at the bottom of the screen