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	Exploring Mars: The Shadow of Phobos
		The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall.
		Both Mars and the Earth rotate so that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and their moons all orbit in the same direction as the planets rotate.
		To figure this out, compare the velocity of Phobos in orbit to your velocity on the equator of Mars, 0.2405 kilometers per second, and calculate the velocity of Phobos relative to you.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmars/activities/phobos.html

	mars.html
		As a historical oddity, Kepler predicted that Mars would have two moons based on the idea of completing the sequence???: Earth has 1 moon, Mars should have 2 moons, and Jupiter has 4 moons (as thought in circa 1610) (Ca-200).
		The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery This is a useful resource, but their images are small and I suppose they maintain that their electronic versions are copyrighted.
		Water channels have been long identified on Mars, but they it is argued that they could be due to flood events due sudden heating of frozen water: volcanic or impact heat would be the cause.
	www.physics.unlv.edu /~jeffery/astro/mars/mars.html (4110 words)

	Updated Guide 5.0 software
		Central meridians are shown for Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun, the Moon, Galilean moons, and (when viewed from other planets) the Earth.
		I've since found maps for the Galilean moons and for some moons of Saturn; I will upload these when I have processed them, along with some extra maps for the Earth and Mars.
		This is probably one of the most useless features I have ever added to Guide (though I hope the mapping of Mars will be of use during the coming opposition, and lunar observers may find it nice to see what parts of the moon are well-placed for observing).
	www.projectpluto.com /update.htm (2433 words)

	Red Zone MARS PAGE
		Mars has two moons Diemos and Phobos both moons are heavily cratered and porous from meteor collisions.
		The average recorded temperature on Mars is -63° C (-81° F).
		Mars the fourth planet from the sun and widely known as the red planet because
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Dimension/9967 (432 words)

	Mars
		Rationale for Exploring Mars and Exploring the Moons of Mars
		Pictures of the Moons of Mars: Deimos and Phobos
		Mars Meteorites - Swapping Rocks: Exchange of Surface Material Among the Planets
	www.cyberpursuits.com /space/solsys/mars.asp (380 words)

	ERBzine 0421: Princess of Mars C.H.A.S.E.R.
		MT=Under the Moons of Mars - Series Title in Modern Mechanics = Carter of the Red Planet.
		University of Nebraska: Bison Books: Under the Moons of Mars (Trilogy)
		From Chronology For the Princess of Mars Trilogy by Fredrik Ekman
	www.erbzine.com /mag4/0421.html (381 words)

	USGS Astrogeology: Voyager Mission
		The twin Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1975 to conduct studies of Jupiter, Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of both planets.
		The five year mission extended to twelve years, allowing the spacecraft to explore not only Jupiter and Saturn, but also Uranus, Neptune, and a total of 48 of the gas giants' moons.
		This new leg of the journey called the Voyager Interstellar Mission.
	astrogeology.usgs.gov /Missions/Voyager (381 words)

	Dr. SOHO's FAQ: General Astronomy Questions
		Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, do not have any atmosphere, and they are thought to be captured asteroids.
		Mars is a planet with a hard crust, like Earth is. Jupiter and Saturn are planets that have no hard surface - they are called "gas giants" because their atmospheres continue far down into the depths of each planet.
		Once we understood that the Earth and Moon were analogous to the planets and their satellites, we extended the names in both directions, referring to Earth as a planet and the other planet's satellites as "moons".
	sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov /explore/faq/astronomy.html (13749 words)

	A Barsoom Glossary - The Planets
		In Swords of Mars, John Carter describes the moons as Thuria, the larger moon orbits around Barsoom at 5,800 miles from the planet's surface; Cluros is slightly smaller and orbits at 14,500 miles.
		Barsoom, as Mars is known by its inhabitants, is only one of many worlds catalogued by Martian astronomers.
		Edgar Rice Burroughs carried his inventive creativity beyond the desert world of Mars.
	www.erblist.com /abg/planets.html (13749 words)

	ERBzin-e 421: Princess of Mars C.H.A.S.E.R.
		MT=Under the Moons of Mars - Series Title in Modern Mechanics = Carter of the Red Planet.
		"Under the Moons of Mars" ~ THE ALL-STORY 1912
		From Chronology For the Princess of Mars Trilogy by Fredrik Ekman
	www.angelfire.com /trek/chaser1/erbz421.html (346 words)

	FAQs about the planet Mars - The Astronomy Cafe - Ask the Astronomer
		Are the moons of Mars really moons, or are they asteroids?
		How were the early conditions on Mars similar to that of Earth for life to have formed there?
		Is there any evidence that the Mars fossils are not what they seem to be?
	www.astronomycafe.net /qadir/amars.html (346 words)

	Articles - 3753 Cruithne
		After 385 years or so, the kidney bean is now approaching Earth again from the other side, and the Earth, once more, alters the orbit of Cruithne so that its period of revolution around the Sun is again slightly less than a year.
		The orbits these two moons follow around Saturn are much simpler than the one Cruithne follows, but operate along the same general principles.
		Jupiter has many (about 400 objects, the Trojan asteroids); there are also other small co-orbital moons in the Saturnian system:
	www.kamero.net /articles/3753_Cruithne (346 words)

	Exploration of Mars Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)
		Mars Climate Orbiter is infamous for project engineers mixing up the usage of imperial units with metric units, causing the orbiter to burn up while entering Mars' atmosphere.
		The Soviet Union went to Mars again in 1988 with the Phobos 1 and 2 probes to study the planet and its moons Phobos and Deimos.
		Shortly after the launch of Mars Express, NASA sent a pair of twin rovers toward the planet as part of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Exploration_of_Mars (2438 words)

	Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars.
		A great portion of Blue Mars is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its fictional protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments.
		The books also speculate on the colonization of other planets and moons in the solar system, and include descriptions of cities on Callisto, Mercury, Titania, and Venus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Mars (1771 words)

	Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The datum for Mars is defined by the fourth-degree and fourth-order spherical harmonic gravity field, with the zero altitude defined by the 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar) atmospheric pressure surface (approximately 0.6% of Earth's) at a temperature of 273.16 K. This pressure and temperature correspond to the triple point of water.
		Mars has only a quarter the surface area of the Earth and only one-tenth the mass, though its surface area is approximately equal to that of the Earth's dry land because Mars lacks oceans.
		This symbol is a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the god Mars, and in biology it is used as a sign for the male sex.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_(planet) (4336 words)

	Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars.
		The books also speculate on the colonization of other planets and moons in the solar system, and include descriptions of cities on Callisto, Mercury, Titania, and Venus.
		After returning from Mars, he is a public hero, and uses his considerable influence to lobby for another mission to Mars, this time a colonization mission.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Mars (1575 words)

	Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The datum for Mars is defined by the fourth-degree and fourth-order spherical harmonic gravity field, with the zero altitude defined by the 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar) atmospheric pressure surface (approximately 0.6% of Earth's) at a temperature of 273.16 K. This pressure and temperature correspond to the triple point of water.
		The atmosphere on Mars is 95 percent carbon dioxide, 3 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, and traces of oxygen and water.
		Mars has only a quarter the surface area of the Earth and only one-tenth the mass (though its surface area is approximately equal to that of the Earth's dry land because Mars lacks oceans).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_(planet) (3748 words)

	Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The datum for Mars is defined by the fourth-degree and fourth-order spherical harmonic gravity field, with the zero altitude defined by the 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar) atmospheric pressure surface (approximately 0.6% of Earth's) at a temperature of 273.16 K. This pressure and temperature correspond to the triple point of water.
		The atmosphere on Mars is 95 percent carbon dioxide, 3 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, and traces of oxygen and water.
		The red, fiery appearance of Mars is caused by iron oxide (rust) on its surface.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mars_(planet) (3748 words)

	Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars.
		Russell is a leader of the Green movement (a movement whose goal is to terraform Mars) and also a brilliant and creative scientist who suffers aphasia (likely Broca's aphasia) after suffering a stroke while being brutally tortured by government security forces in Green Mars.
		The books also speculate on the colonization of other planets and moons in the solar system, and include descriptions of cities on Callisto, Mercury, Titania, and Venus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Green_Mars (1575 words)

	Mars trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blue Mars takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has taken place allowing atmospheric pressure and temperature to increase so that liquid water can exist on the planet's surface, forming rivers and seas.
		The Mars trilogy is a series of three science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson, chronicling the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars.
		A great portion of Blue Mars is concerned with the effects of extreme longevity on its fictional protagonists, most of whom have lived over two hundred years as a result of repeated longevity treatments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_Mars (1575 words)

	Notes: JUPITER'S MOONS
		Most of these moons of are small (less than 200 kilometers across), irregular, and undifferentiated (like Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars).
		A sharper view of the Galilean moons was provided by the two Voyager spacecraft, which flew past Jupiter in 1979, and the Galileo spacecraft, which went into orbit around Jupiter in 1995.
		The Galilean moons, starting from the outermost and moving inward, are Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, and Io (named after four of the god Jupiter's startlingly numerous lovers).
	users.zoominternet.net /~matto/M.C.A.S/notes_jupiters_moons.htm (1348 words)

	MarsNews.com :: NewsWire for the New Frontier
		The images stock a treasury of scientific information on scales from microscopic detail to features on the horizon scores of kilometers or miles away, and even include glimpses of Mars' moons, Earth and the Sun.
		Since the arrival of Mars Global Surveyor and more recently Mars Odyssey spacecrafts, a range of facts has revealed the existence of frozen water ice in the top meters of high latitudes near-surface (~60�-90�) of both martian hemispheres.
		A view of the sundial-like calibration target on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, with a bit of martian terrain in the background, is the 50,000th image from the twin rovers that have been exploring Mars since January.
	www.marsnews.com (1348 words)

	Ares-Mars rules sign Aries: mythology gods
		In Mars the need to be an individual is more important than the need to relate or to be part of mankind.
		For this discussion we must distinguish the zodiacal sign Aries from the god Ares, later called Mars and ruler of the sign Aries.
		The latter two were always associated with strife and battle; the planet Mars' two moons were named after them.
	www.myastrologybook.com /Ares-Mars-mythology-gods.htm (419 words)

	Blue Mars Review
		Thus Blue Mars has sections set on Earth, on Mercury, and in the moons of Uranus, as well as visits to Venus, the asteroids, and the others of the Outer Planets.
		Green Mars advanced the story of Mars' colonization, introducing many second- and third-generation characters, and ended in a generally successful revolution which established Martian independence.
		Many of the First Hundred return in this book as viewpoint characters of sections, as well as some of the later generation members introduced in Green Mars, and at least one new, significant, character for this book.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/bluemars.htm (900 words)

	Blue Mars Review
		Thus Blue Mars has sections set on Earth, on Mercury, and in the moons of Uranus, as well as visits to Venus, the asteroids, and the others of the Outer Planets.
		Many of the First Hundred return in this book as viewpoint characters of sections, as well as some of the later generation members introduced in Green Mars, and at least one new, significant, character for this book.
		Another view would be that, since Blue Mars is to some considerable extent about rapprochement between the Reds and the Greens, and also between Mars and Earth, that Blue is to be read as a compromise color between Red and Green.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/bluemars.htm (900 words)

	More Signs On The Earth And In The Heavens Joseph Herrin
		The planet Mars has two moons, Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Panic), and it has long been associated as a harbinger of death and war."
		Mars was figured as being accompanied by Fuga and Timor who were the personifications of flight and fear.
		It was determined by astronomers that Mars had not been so close in nearly 60,000 years, and from the time of Adam’s creation in the Garden of Eden Mars had never been as close.
	www.etpv.org /2003/mosi.html (1390 words)

	Mars - Astronomy for Kids
		It is perhaps fitting that a planet with the ominous reputation of Mars should have two moons that are named for the horses that pulled the chariot of the Roman god of war.
		Mars is one of the first things people look at when they get their first telescope, and it can remain a favorite observation target for as long as they own the telescope.
		Throughout history, the appearance of Mars in the sky, with its somewhat ominous red color, has been interpreted as an omen that something important, and usually bad, was about to happen.
	www.dustbunny.com /afk/planets/mars (1183 words)

	p_030727_spacecamp_4b.html
		About 40 participants experiment with plants that might grow on Mars, travel on a simulated space shuttle mission, use virtual reality to fly to Mars, explore moons and asteroids in the solar system, talk to a NASA scientist and invent a space game.
		After spending a day at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum's Space Station and Mission Control simulating a flight to Mars, Damon has an idea for the first level of the game he would design.
		Jacqueline is one of 40 children at the Space Pioneer Adventures Camp at Michigan State University.
	www.lsj.com /news/local/p_030727_spacecamp_4b.html (1183 words)

	Mars Pathfinder -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The modern name Mars is that of the Roman god of war; the planet's two moons, Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror), are named after the...
		Mars, quite simply, was the planet of the year as Mars Pathfinder and its deployed rover beamed back images from the surface and as Mars Global Surveyor started settling into its planned orbit.
		Developed by NASA as part of a low-cost approach to planetary exploration, Pathfinder successfully completed both demonstrations, gathered scientific data, and returned striking images from Mars.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9389156?tocId=9389156 (864 words)

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