SpaceRef - Exploration and Missions - Robotic Missions

A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Martian Exploration - A collection of references on Martian exploration back to the 1960s. No links. NASA History Office.

JPL Mars Exploration - This site provides inks to all Mars missions and programs run by JPL for NASA.

Mars Missions News and Information - This page provides links to status reports and imagery for all JPL Mars missions underway or under development. [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory]

Mars Spacecraft Data - A collection of data on all American and Soviet Mars missions in the 1960's 70's and '80s NASA Johnson Space Center.

Mars Virtual Landing Sites - This site presents four landing site simulations of locations of interest to various scientific disciplines based upon USGS topographical data. Requires QuickTime VR browser plugin - Center for Mars Exploration - NASA Ames Research Center.

On Mars: Exploration of the Red Planet. 1958-1978 NASA 4212 - This website contains the complete text of this exhaustive scientific and technical history of the Viking program - NASA History Office

Pascal: A Mars Climate Network Mission - This site describes a proposed low-cost mission to study atmospheric circulation and climate on Mars that would ride piggyback on a Ariane V rocket. Proposed in collaboration with the French Space Agency -NASA Ames Research Center.

Planetary Surface Instrument Workshop - This workshop was held in May 1995 by NASA so as to initiate a cooperation on scientific instruments for planetary (and cometary) surface missions before specific missions are proposed or started, NASA Johnson Space Center.