The following links to sites are not part of the "Mission to Mars" material, but provide information that may be of interest.

Antarctic Exploration: The following sites provide a great deal of information about Antarctica:

Bone Density Research and Osteoporosis:

Climate orbiter: In September 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost.  Here are web page stories about its loss:

Cloning: Dolly the sheep was the world's first mammal cloned from a fully grown adult in 1996.  Here are some links to articles about Dolly, and about the technology of cloning.

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Sod hut and Norse boat, L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, site of Viking landings in North America.

Early Exploration: Information about the earliest voyages to North America can be found at http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/early_ex.html

Gerhard Herzberg: Physicist Gerhard Herzberg won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1971.  Fleeing Nazi Germany, he moved to Saskatchewan, where he worked from 1935 - 1945.  Here is biographical information about him.

Interplanetary Travel: The physics behind computing trajectories between planets

Isaac Newton: Biographical and other information

Life on Mars? Internet sites that discuss the possible discovery of fossilized life in Martian meteorites

Martian Science Fiction:

You can read some of the classic science fiction about Mars on the web

NASA:

Paul Sabatier: Biography of the 1912 Nobel prize winner

Spinoffs: NASA publishes an online listing of all the technological spinoffs that result from space related research at http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/online.html

Supercritical CO2: an excellent solvent