Extraterrestrial Life and Death Web Sites  

Here is a partial list of Web sites to get you started. You should be able to simply type these links into the location field of a browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.

I. Exploration of Mars

• Mars Pathfinder (and rover)

On July 4, 1997 Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars (with many spectacular bounces cousioned by air bags). On the next day it released a small rover.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/default.html
• Mars Global Surveyor

Arrives at Mars Sept. 11, 1997 to map the planet.
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs
• Center for Mars Exploration

cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov

II. Cosmology and Big Bang

• Big Bang theory and Edwin Hubble

liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html
• General questions about cosmology

map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html

III. Comets, Asteroids and Impacts

• STARDUST Mission

stardust.jpl.nasa.gov
• Comet Shoemaker -- Levy 9

www.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9
• Project Galileo Home Page

Is a spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter and its moons.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
• Mass Extinctions

Discussion of five mass extinctions including the dinosaurs. (Low level)
www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/extinction/
• Some Spacecraft Missions to and Images of Comets and Asteroids

nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html
• Excellent Large Multimedia Project on the Solar System

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

IV. Extrasolar Planets

• Exploration of Neighboring Planetary Systems (Note: Some of the pictures here are technical. Feel free to ask me questions.)

techinfo.jpl.nasa.gov/www/ExNPS/homepage.html
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia

www.obspm.fr/planets
• Darwin -- Space Interferometer is one way to search for planets.

ast.star.rl.ac.uk/darwin

V. Origin of Life on Earth

 
• Origin of Life

www.susqu.edu/facstaff/b/brakke/complexity/millard/olife2.htm
• Earth Science and origin of life
www.rpi.edu/~whittd/COOL/geo.html

VI. SETI

• SETI institute http://www.seti-inst.edu/