Resources

This page contains resources about Mars and other information to help both the public and event organisers.

NAW YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/NationalAstronomyWeek This includes some interesting and exciting videos in some cases produced especially for this week. One example is an excellent new video entitled The Changing Face Of Mars narrated by Heather Cooper that we've just released for NAW.

General Information about Mars:

Online Lecture: "Life On Mars" by Professor Andrew Coates (UCL). https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/mars
   1 hour, given on 23rd September 2020.

Online Book: The "All About Space" Book on Mars:  https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/asb2860.issuu_ec?e=1191357/78478211
   A free online resource. 

BBC News on the opposition of Mars: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54483853

Moons of Mars: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/mars-moons/overview/

General Space news: https://www.space.com 

Education Resources

Mars@School    A wondeful educational resource - in French and German also!   http://marsatschool.ethz.ch/en/ 
   It teaches about astronomy, geophysics and the InSight rover on Mars.

Classroom activities based on the NASA Mars Insight Mission: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/participate/classroom-activities/

Online lectures about Mars from Lowell Observatory: https://lowell.edu/mars-at-opposition/

Sun Space Art: A fantastic collection of worksheets to get children engaging in astronomy in creative ways https://www.sunspaceart.org/art-worksheets/helen-schell-make-it-into-space/ 

Mars Discovery Diaries: This online book will guide students through planning a mission to Mars! Also available in Welsh. https://discoverydiaries.org/diary/mars-diary/ 

Missions to Mars

NASA: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020 Information including images and videos of Nasa’s Perseverence mission to Mars, due to land in February 2021. Covers the Rover Perseverance and Helicopter Ingenuity.
 
ESA: http://www.esa.int/exomars The European Space Agency Exomars missions.
ExoMars22 is due to launch in 2022.  Includes details of the Rover Rosalind Franklin which is being built in the UK.
 
EarthSky.org: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-photos-mars-reconnaissance-orbiter-15th-anniversary 
Information and images of past Rovers and current Surface images of Mars.

Photos of Mars

Thousands of NASA and other spacecraft images of Mars and the Solar System: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/

Earth-based images made by Damian Peach from the UK and elsewhere: http://www.damianpeach.com/marsindex.htm

Resources in the form of downloadable files.

These are listed in this page: https://mars20.astronomyweek.org.uk/storage/nawfiles/

Table showing full list of NAW events with links to recordings: NAW Events Table