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Letter from the EditorsWe are searching for some good reporters to write stories about news and weather for our Martian Sun-Times. Are you up to the challenge? If so, here are some cool links for you to examine. Click on the links at the left to find some investigations that will get your creative mind working! Hope to hear from you!your editors,Flo and Jeff
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Mars: All Sun All The Time? (109k) Mars Today, created by Howard Houben of the Mars Global Circulation Model group, shows current conditions on Mars and its relationship to Earth in four panels. |
Getting Down to Earth: See the U.S.A in a Brand New Way (179k) Up-to-date satellite image from the Weather Machine, available through the University of Illinois, Department of Atmospheric Sciences. |
USA Weather: It's All in Vane (125k) Satellite weather map of the USA from WXP, a general purpose weather visualization tool for near-realtime and archived meteorological data. WXP is a product of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University. |
Weather Symbols: No Groundhogs Here Table of weather symbols from the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University. |
International Weather Maps: The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plain World-wide weather from Accuweather. |
USA - Visible Light and Infrared: Put Your Head in the Clouds (60k) |
Olympus Mons: Always Cloaked in Clouds? (65k) Olympus Mons - Largest volcano in the entire solar system! |
Pathfinder Sunset View: Pink Sky at Night, Martian's Delight? (78k) Pathfinder photo of pink Martian sunset. |
A Day's Temperatures on Mars: It's a Cold Cruel World (52k) Average daily Martian temperatures, showing warmest time and latitude. |
Mars Temperatures With Clear Atmosphere: Cool! (65k) Comparison of surface and atmospheric temperatures on an average Martian clear day. |
Mars Temperatures With Dusty Atmosphere: Dust Gets in my Eyes (65k) Comparison of average surface and atmospheric temperatures on Mars during a dust storm. |
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 Martian Seasonal Temperatures: It's Not the Heat, It's Not the Humidity (65k) Graph showing how Mars' temperature changes with latitude during the Martian year. |
 Ocean Temperatures: Dip, Dip Today? (116k) Sea surface temperatures around the globe from the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. |
 Whole Earth Catalog Of Temperatures This is a Mollweide projection composite image of cloud top, synoptic observation and sea surface temperatures. This World Composite is generated at the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center.
This image is updated at 20 minutes past the hour at 2am, 8am, 2pm, and 8pm
Eastern Time.
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Meteorite: The Secret of Life? NASA has made a startling discovery that points to the possibility that a primitive form of microscopic life may have existed on Mars more than three billion years ago. The research is based on a sophisticated examination of an ancient Martian meteorite that landed on Earth some 13,000 years ago.
The evidence is exciting, even compelling, but not
conclusive. It is a discovery that demands further scientific
investigation. NASA is ready to assist the process of
rigorous scientific investigation and lively scientific debate
that will follow this discovery.
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 The Wonders of Weather The Discovery Channel School |
 Daily Martian Weather Report Stanford and JPL |
 Life on Mars Science On-line |
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From the Malin Space Science Systems |
Those responsible for creating this lesson plan are Jeff Benson and Florence Vaughan of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, with assistance from Phyllis Pitluga (ppitluga@midway.uchicago.edu), Vivian Hoette (vhoette@midway.uchicago.edu), Marty Billingsley (marty@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu), and Gary Wong (garyw@cea.berkeley.edu).
Document last updated August 4, 2002
