Mars Exploration Program: Missions Feature Summary

Type:
Physics in Your World
Title:
Missions to Mars
Description:
To the naked eye, Mars is a red point of light, but a telescope reveals it to be a disk. An amateur astronomer captured this image in the Advanced Observing Program at Kitt Peak Visitors Center. For images of Mars' polar ice caps and surface channels, see this Hyperphysics page. To learn about NASA's investigation of life on Mars, visit Viking 1 & 2, and for all the probes to the red planet, check out Missions to Mars.
Image:
Image credit: Roger Tanner/Jack Kennedy/NOAO/AURA/NSF; (no larger image available)
Image credit: Roger Tanner/Jack Kennedy/NOAO/AURA/NSF; (no larger image available)
Featured:
June 16, 2008 - July 1, 2008