"Name the Mars Rovers"

•  As NASA prepares to send twin probes to Mars, you will have the opportunity to participate in the 
  "Name the Mars Rovers" Contest. 

• Your form and links to background information are all available at: NASA Name the Rovers Contest:  Be A Part of History. 

• Read information about the mission at: Mars Exploration Rovers. 

• Consult the list of names for previous probes at:  NASA History:  A Chronology of Mars Exploration .  

Rover Name and Essay Information:
    When doing research for suggested rover names, please keep in mind that space objects, missions, and spacecraft have traditionally been named after people or places from history, mythology, or fiction, or with words that convey a spirit of exploration or enterprise.

Additional Resources:

Mars (the planet): 

Internet:

1. The Nine Planets - A multimedia tour of the Mars with Bill Arnett.

2. Mars Exploration - NASA's Funzone site on this Extreme Planet.
   

LVMS South Library:

1. 523.4 VOG       Vogt, Gregory.  Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.  Austin, TX: Steadwell Books, c2001.  Text and pictures describe the four inner planets of the Solar System.

2. 523.43 SIM     Simon, Seymour.  Mars.  New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1987.  Text and photographs describe features of the red planet.

3. 523.43 VOG     Vogt, Gregory.  Mars.  Austin, TX : Steadwell Books, c2001.  Text  and pictures describe the red planet.

4. 919.9 WUN     Wunsch, Susi Trautmann, 1957-.  The adventures of Sojourner : the mission to Mars that thrilled the world.  New York : Mikay Press, c1998.  Tells the story of the mission that placed the Sojourner remote-control rover on Mars on July 4, 1997.

 Mars (the God):  
The planet Mars was named for Mars (MARZ) Roman name of Ares (Greek), the Olympian god of war.  Search Greek & Roman Mythology to learn more.

 

Internet:   

1. MythWeb - This site is devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology. 

2. Greek Mythology Link - Check out Biographies or Search the GML.

3. Greek Mythology - from the Iliad to the fall of the last tyrant.
   

LVMS South Library:

1. 398.2 MCC      McCaughrean, Geraldine.  Greek gods and goddesses.  1st U.S. ed. New York : M.K. McElderry Books, 1998.  A collection of fifteen retellings of Greek myths.

2. REF 291.1 KEE      Keenan, Sheila. Gods, goddesses, and monsters : an encyclopedia of world mythology.  New York : Scholastic Reference, c2000. Discusses the characters and themes of the myths of peoples from Asia to Africa to North and South America.

3. REF 291.1 MUR   Who's who in mythology.

 

Created by Barbara Swetits
Last updated 01/26/2003