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	Mars in fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Interest in Mars has been stimulated by the planet's dramatic red color, by early scientific speculations that its surface conditions might be capable of supporting life, and by the possibility that Mars could be colonized by humans in the future.
		Mars is the scene of the last of three recent space operas by John Barnes: In the Hall of the Martian King (2003).
		Mars is shown as being previously inhabited by an ancient race of aliens who created a machine for producing a breathable atmosphere on the planet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_in_fiction (5890 words)

	SciFan: Mars in Science Fiction Bibliography
		John Carter is transported to Mars, is captured by a tribe of Thark warriors and rescues the princess Dejah Thoris.
		Mars is depicted as being Schiaperellian, with deserts and canals.
		Mars seems to be populated entirely by square-jawed "real men" (who deliver speeches about the virtues of the colonies) and their womanly mates.
	www.scifan.com /themes/mars/marsbiblio.asp (5396 words)

	1-Mapping the Mars Rovers' Landing Sites
		The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is part of NASA's quest to explore the planet using both orbiting spacecraft and robots.
		Both rovers were successfully landed, each on opposite sides of Mars in early January 2004 and began carrying out their mission to search for indications of the presence of water on Mars.
		Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Odyssey (MO) are funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
	www.esri.com /news/arcuser/0404/mapmars1of3.html (946 words)

	Mars
		While the average temperature on Mars is about 218 K (-55 C, -67 F), Martian surface temperatures range widely from as little as 140 K (-133 C, -207 F) at the winter pole to almost 300 K (27 C, 80 F) on the day side during summer.
		The average pressure on the surface of Mars is only about 7 millibars (less than 1% of Earth's), but it varies greatly with altitude from almost 9 millibars in the deepest basins to about 1 millibar at the top of Olympus Mons.
		Mars' thin atmosphere produces a greenhouse effect but it is only enough to raise the surface temperature by 5 degrees (K); much less than what we see on Venus and Earth.
	dept.physics.upenn.edu /nineplanets/mars.html (2044 words)

	100 Years of Martian Fiction
		He envisioned a Mars inhabited by intelligent creatures obsessed with irrigating their desert world with water melted from the polar caps.
		Bradbury's fiction is more engaging due to its sweep and perception of human nature, rather than its accuracy relating to the Martian environment.
		Tells the story of humans genetically altered for survival on Mars, who watch as their world is terraformed.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar00/mars_books.htm (834 words)

	"Are The Oceans And Rivers Of Mars A Fiction?
		His "Long-winded Model of Mars,' as he has tongue-in-cheek tagged it, holds that the keys to understanding the surface features of Mars are the present thin CO2atmosphere, the well-known dust storms, and the odd nature of the unstable sediments coating the surface.
		It would be a touch embarrassing to admit to shoving the current equivalent of the canals of Mars, at everyone from the world's schoolchildren to its science community, for three decades in the face of an avalanche of perfectly clear evidence to the contrary.
		Mars exploration trucks are very impressive, but the drilling and sampling systems they deploy are unavoidably limited.
	spacedaily.com /news/mars-water-science-03q1.html (1317 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Mars Spectacular (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as 60,000 years before it happens again.
		Mars had another close encounter with Earth in in 2005, but that occurrence took place in October (not August), and the red planet appeared about 20% smaller than it did during similar circumstances in 2003.
		Not until 2018 will our view of Mars be similar to the one that was available in 2003, and it won't be until the year 2287 that Mars will come closer to Earth than it did back in 2003.
	www.snopes.com /science/mars.asp (707 words)

	Destination Mars - Adult Reading Lists - FCPL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Most of the science fiction writers are scientists who have been following Mars science passionately for years, and many have contributed significantly to the effort through the “Mars Underground,” an ongoing community of scientists on the Internet who share theories and discoveries.
		Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet by Paul Raeburn and Matt Golulmbek 523.43 R 1998.
		The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin 523.43 Z. The Case for Mars outlines a feasible project for a human expedition, one which will be familiar to readers of much recent Mars fiction.
	www.fairfaxcounty.gov /library/reading/adult/mars.htm (1169 words)

	Dead Mars, Dying Earth - Team Probes Mars' Science And Fiction
		Dead Mars, Dying Earth theorizes the comet responsible for gouging Mars' 120-mile wide Lyot impact crater 500 million years ago also blasted organic seed debris onto Earth, which in turn hastened the evolution of primitive aquatic life.
		Dead Mars details troubling parallels between Mars and Earth and contends Earth slowly is choking on OID, or oxygen inventory depletion.
		Dead Mars goes on to hypothesize that, with burning fossil fuels and deforestation raging out of control, the north Atlantic Ocean has absorbed 100 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
	www.rense.com /politics6/deadmars.htm (989 words)

	CNN.com - Mars 101: The facts and the fictions - Jan. 7, 2004
		Images from the Mars Global Surveyor and Hubble Space Telescope have shown that the change of seasons is sweeping and violent: A long frozen winter gives way to a summer featuring pink dust storms, with winds up to 300 mph (480 km/h).
		Mars is about half the size of Earth and has only about one-tenth its mass.
		By 1909, astronomers had shown that even the channels were illusionary, but the belief in intelligent life on Mars lingered.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/08/26/mars.101/index.html (561 words)

	SpaceViews December 1997: Book Reviews
		Combined with tantalizing hits of past or present life on Mars and Europa, it has raised the hope that the development of life, and perhaps intelligent life, may be commonplace in the universe.
		His focus is as much on the "alien" aspect of the title as planets, as he starts with a history of our studies of Mars, a planet that had been "discovered" by the ancients but long thought to harbor alien, possibly intelligent, life.
		Mars: the Living Planet is a disappointing study of life on Mars which, while far from being a closed case, almost certainly does not resemble the string of conspiracy theories Digregorio spins in his book.
	www.seds.org /spaceviews/9712/bookrev.html (1323 words)

	BookPage Science Fiction Review: Blue Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In this third volume, Blue Mars, the Red Planet is gone and is now covered by water and settlement as Mars has been terraformed from a desert to a human-habitable world.
		The Reds' goal is to preserve Mars in its desert state in opposition to the Greens.
		Now, as all that remains is finishing the breathable atmosphere, Earth is imperiled and Mars confronts either a population explosion or war as the near immortal First Hundred deliberate.
	www.bookpage.com /9609bp/sciencefiction/bluemars.html (173 words)

	Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson
		Also, the process of terraformation, which Mars is a great candidate for, brings up all the issues of ecology and environmental management that are most pressing for us right now here on Earth.
		Mars functions as a mesocosm experiment in planetary control, in that it's bigger than a lab but smaller than the Earth's complex biosphere.
		Mars can help as experiment in planetary engineering -- what we learn there will be applicable here -- but it cannot help us as a new physical space, because the problems will be severe in the next hundred years, and Mars cannot be made inhabitable in less than 300 years; probably more like 3,000.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue23/interview.html (2124 words)

	Mars in the Mind of Earth: Novels - Full List
		A Princess of Mars and A Fighting Man of Mars.
		Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars.
		An earth expedition finds themselves on Mars where the different visions of Wells, Burroughs, and Kline are represented.
	www.marsearth.com /novels/bars.html (2160 words)

	MARS LINKS
		Burroughs' ten-volume Mars series was the action-adventure Star Wars diversion of his generation, featuring the exploits of one John Carter.
		A Martian invasion forms a prelude to this two-billion-year panorama of human history, largely inspired by the geneticist J. Haldane's "Possible Worlds" and "Last Judgment." The theme of Stapledon's cosmic evolutionary perspective is the smallness and insignificance of a human person.
		Mars has sometimes occupied center stage, but the question is one of great interest and broad appeal.
	homepage.mac.com /kvmagruder/planet/links/marslinks.htm (550 words)

	World of Westfahl Article: Reading Mars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Just as science fiction writers were reluctantly giving up on intelligent and humanoid Martians, however, Hollywood was discovering them; and the 1950s and 1960s became the golden age of Martians on film and television.
		The problem was that this old, colorful Mars was now taboo, and the new, forbidding Mars allowed for only a limited number of stories involving things like crash landings or grim efforts to live through a Martian sandstorm.
		Second, I found Red Mars to be an exhausting book, in the sense that one almost begins to feel physically tired while reading about all the work that Robinson's characters must do as part of their efforts to make Mars into an Earthlike environment.
	www.sfsite.com /gary/ww-mars03.htm (1606 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Red Mars (Mars Trilogy): Books: Kim Stanley Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Probably the most impressive aspect of Red Mars is that despite its obvious hard-sf nature Robinson works hard to put the characters at the forefront of the story.
		Occasionally heavy-going, but for those who appreciate serious science fiction this is an intelligent and interesting examination of the clash between preservation and terraforming, capitalist exploitation and colonisation.
		The plot is fairly straightforward in that it concerns the colonisation of Mars and its "terraforming" (artificially transforming its climate to make it like Earth) by a group of 100 men and women from Earth later this century.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Red-Mars-Trilogy-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0586213899 (1443 words)

	Mars Facts
		Mars has a very thin atmosphere, mostly carbon dioxide, but dust storms can cover the whole planet for months at a time.
		Mars also has large canyons, dust storms, sand dunes, polar ice caps and other features similar to those found on Earth.
		On April 7, 2001, the 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched on a Delta II launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
	www.kidscosmos.org /kid-stuff/mars-facts.html (701 words)

	Amazon.com: Mars: Books: Ben Bova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Bova has done extensive research and his descriptions of Mars and the conditions under which the study is conducted are very plausible.
		"Mars" is Bova's account of the first manned flight to the titular planet, undertaken by a multinational crew of scientists and astronauts.
		His Mars is fully realized, even if the Earth of the novel is not well-defined (he keeps referring to "the politicians" back home, for instance, as if politics in any era were that monolithic or uncomplicated).
	www.amazon.com /Mars-Ben-Bova/dp/055356241X (2543 words)

	RichImages: Truth and Fiction of Viewing Mars in 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Mars did make an extraordinarily close approach to Earth which culminated on 27 August 2003, when the red planet came within 35 million miles (or 56 million kilometers) of Earth, its nearest approach to us in almost 60,000 years.
		To the unaided observer, Mars' appearance in August 2003 wasn't significantly larger or brighter than it is during those much more common intervals of closeness.
		Mars will have another close encounter with Earth in in 2005, but that occurrence will take place in October (not August), and the red planet will appear about 20% smaller than it did during similar circumstances in 2003.
	richimages.net /Blog/2005/07/truth-and-fiction-of-viewing-mars-in.html (716 words)

	CNN.com - Space - Oxygen on Mars? Science fiction could become science fact - March 20, 2000
		In fact, NASA engineers this month are testing the prototype of a device that could allow future Mars colonists to produce their own oxygen.
		During tests in 1999, the MIP unit successfully produced oxygen from a gas environment that simulated Mars' extremely thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere.
		Producing oxygen using materials readily available on Mars would be an important step toward reducing the costs and risks of an eventual human mission to Mars, Kaplan said.
	www.cnn.com /2000/TECH/space/03/20/mars.oxygen.machine/index.html (516 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Mars: Books: Ben Bova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		On a first reading of Bova's 'Mars' one is left with nothing but the impression that it looks a little bit like New Mexico.
		I have always been interested in Mars and its environment but looking back on the book you only have to have a slight understanding of Mars at most to enjoy this well wrote and educated book.
		Describing the first manned mission to Mars through the people and the relationships that evolve throughout their mission.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mars-Ben-Bova/dp/0450577171 (1283 words)

	Red Mars Index page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Winner of the 1993 Nebula award for best novel from the SF Writers of America, the book is a return to "hard" science fiction, based on a detailed and thorough knowledge of current Mars science.
		The first book of a trilogy including Green Mars and Blue Mars, Red Mars is a possible future history of the colonization of Mars by a group of scientists chosen by Russia and the United States, and their efforts to create a new lifestyle on the new planet.
		Overall, Red Mars is a masterwork of the possible, as well as a thought-provoking look at the human psyche and its relationship to environment.
	hubcap.clemson.edu /~sparks/marsindx.html (182 words)

	Gulliver of Mars - Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums
		The second question is how to describe the marvellous experience of reading this book, sitting down with absolutely no idea of what lies within, and having a dazzling portrait, most exquisitely panted, unfold.
		At once the carpet whisks him away to the Red Planet, to a canalled city of lotus-eaters where even the slaves are indolent, where everyone is selfish and apathetic, and where the most beautiful and unlove-worthy woman ever to have lived can be found.
		E R Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars has numerous suspicious parallels with this earlier book, and I will say that Gulliver is by far the better work.
	www.chronicles-network.com /forum/2963-gulliver-of-mars.html (434 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mars Probes: Books: Peter Crowther (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		From Ray Bradbury's gentle tale of love's conquest of fear ("The Love Affair"), never before published in the United States, to Michael Moorcock's ebullient homage to the Mars fiction of Leigh Brackett ("The Lost Sorceress of the Silent Citadel"), the 16 original stories in this collection capture the eternal fascination with the red planet.
		In terms of the arts and sciences, Mars apparently has been a fad as it has appears in several movies last year, space probes have visited the red planet and now this anthology center on either a voyage to or surviving on the "Angry Red Planet".
		The book is worth reading for its entertainment value and comparing its scientific premises to the knowledge that the NASA probes have brought with its data and pictures from the fourth planet from the sun.
	www.amazon.ca /Mars-Probes-Peter-Crowther/dp/0756400880 (363 words)

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