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Mission to Mars

Benchmark Downloads

All benchmark lessons
Mars as a Solar System Body
  - Place in the Solar System
  - Physical Properties and Composition
  - The Moons of Mars
Mars Geography
  - Geography
  - Mountains
  - Mountains
  - Mountains
  - Craters
  - Surface rocks
  - Crust composition
  - Atmosphere composition
  - Ice caps
Mars Conditions
  - Gravity
  - Atmosphere
  - Weather, winds, storms
  - Temperatures, seasons, climate
  - Length of year
  - Length of day
Water on Mars
  - Polar Ice Caps
  - Water channels
  - Surface Water
Previous, Current, and Future Missions to Mars
  - Mariner 4
  - Mariner 6-7
  - Mariner 9
  - Viking 1-2
  - Mars Pathfinder/Sojurner Rover
  - Mars Global Surveyor
  - 2001 Mars Odyssey
  - 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers
  - 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
  - Smart Lander and Long-Range Rover
  - Scout Missions
  - Sample Return and Other Missions
Getting to Mars Rovers
  - Escape velocity
  - Routes and travel time
  - Supplies: food, water, oxygen.
  - Psychological needs/concerns


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