Mars Exploration Rover

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission (since 2003) is an unmanned Mars exploration mission that includes sending two Rovers (robots) to explore the Martian surface and geology. The mission was led by Project Manager Peter Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Principal Investigator Steven Squyres, professor of astronomy at Cornell University.

Links and references

References

• Portions of this article are adopted from NASA/JPL MER article.
• Additional information was adapted from the MER homepage

Related articles

• Exploration of Mars
• Space exploration

NASA websites

• NASA JPL's MER website
• NASA JPL's MER Images website
• NASA TV Special Events Schedule for MER News Briefings at JPL
• NASA Homepage covering all current Mars missions
• NASA Photojournal site for Mars - Archive for MER images, as well as other images of mars
• Mars24 clock for Mars time

Other sites

• PBS NOVA: Dead or Alive (about the rover missions)
• (AXCH) 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers Highlights - News, status, technical info, history, and more.
• Mars image site with automatically generated stereo anaglyphs and true-color images generated from raw JPL images.
• Text Updates from SpaceFlightNow.com on MER-A activity.
• Updates from SpaceFlightNow.com on MER-B launch activity.
• FAQ for Maestro and links to other amateur sites
• Cornell's rover site: Athena
• A Palm Pilot port of Mars24
• MAESTRO - public version of rover simulation software
• Maas Digital Gallery: Mars Exploration Rover scientifically accurate animation
• Mars Rover Manual: Centralized resource for all publically released rover technical details