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Links by category:

Space Experts

• Denver Space Examiner
• Brian Enke's website @ SwRI
• Phoenix Science News Examiner (aka Microbrain)
• Leonard David's blog

Interesting Articles

• Inflatable spacecraft heat shields?
• Europe and Russia team up for Mars
• CBS News Poll: Americans Say U.S. Should Go To Mars
• CNN article: Moon or Mars?
• Buzz Aldrin speaks up for Mars
• Paul Davies addresses a 2008 NASA astrobiology conference
• Astrobiology Magazine: The Mystery of Medusae Fossae

Space Organizations

• Southwest Research Institute, Planetary Science Directorate
• Mars Society
• 4Frontiers Corporation
• MarsDrive Consortium
• Space Frontier Foundation
• Mars Foundation
• Red Colony
• National Space Society
• Planetary Society
• space.com
• NewMars forums
• Pioneer Astronautics

Links to International Space Agencies:

(ordered by likelihood of ever sending human explorers to Mars)

• Russia (RSA)
• China (CNSA) ... unofficial web site, and another
• United States (NASA)
• Europe (ESA) (Germany) (France) (Italy) (UK)
• Japan (JAXA)
• Ukraine (NSAU)
• Brazil (AEB)

Planetary Science Sites:

• Images
• Main HiRISE image site for 2005 MRO mission
• PDS HiRISE archive (use Volume 1 --> RDR's)
• MRO HiRISE transition phase images
• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter home page
• Marsoweb on-line visualization tools
• Planetary Data Archive (WipeCentral)
• Mars Odyssey THEMIS image gallery
• Malin Space Science Systems
• MGS-MOC image gallery
• MGS-MOC mosaic navigation site
• MOLA homepage, images
• USGS Map-A-Planet
• Lunar Images from Clementine
• RPIF library at JPL
• Virtual observatory
• Mars Express image viewer
• NASA solar system dynamics page
• NASA asteroid orbits page
• NASA: Basics of space flight

"Yes... well, she's still a loon. "

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