Biblography


Barbree, Jay., 1997.,  Destination Mars., (Penguin Studio, New York, New York)
This book is very good, packed with information on the history of the Mars myth plus current facts and pictures.
 

Carrol, Michael., February 1999., “Diving on Mars.,” Astronomy
This is about Nasa launching a Martian orbiter on a mission to study the polar caps and figure out what Mars’ climate was like in the past.

Dobbins, Thomas., April 1999., “The colors of Mars: Reality and illusion.,” Astronomy
This article discusses why Mars appears to be a bright ruddy orange color through telescopes and compares it to the real color.

Harrington, Phil., April 99., “Red Planet at Night, Observers Delight.,” Astronomy
It’s obvious this article is for beginning astronomers when you look at the rhyming title.  That said, it is a good place to start, and we got a lot of help planning our observations from this article.

Hartmann., William K., April 99, “Invading Martian Territory.,” Astronomy
This article is about what we discovered about the surface of Mars from the 1996 Mars Global Surveyor and what we might discover.

Internet Movie Database (IMDB)  http:///www.imdb.com
This is the oldest and most respected movie site on the web.  It includes credits, plot-summaries and commentary on just about every movie ever made.

Kaufmann, William J. and Freedman, Roger., 1998., Universe-Fifth Edition. (W.H. Freeman and Company, New York)  pages 279-298
 This chapter on Mars provides a solid background covering our current knowledge of Mars and the space missions

NASA. May 3 1999, Mars Global Surveyor.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marsurv.html
This is NASA’s official site.  It is up-to-date, reliable, and the only place to get information on Surveyor ’98.

Radburn, Paul., 1998., Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet., (National Geographic Society)
A beautiful book on the history of the Mars Missions, including the Pathfinder.  The information is great, but the best part is that it contains 3-D pictures of the surface (glasses included)

Spider, 18 Apr 1998, Mars Mission Launch Sequence.
http://www.seds.org/~spider/mars/mars-1.html
This page was reccomended by an amateur astronomer’s page.  It gives brief information on all missions, and is organized in a time-line.

 The War of the Worlds Page  http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org
This website is completely devoted to War of the Worlds, the novel, radio-drama and film adaptations.  It provided interesting information.