Table of Contents

Background Information about Mars

• Information for Teachers
  Using Information about Mars
• The Launch (to Mars)
  An Explanation of Flight Paths
• The Journey to Mars
  A Summary of a Manned Misson to and from Mars
• Climate and Weather
  The Martian Atmosphere
• Soils
  Minerals and Martian Geology
• Solar and Cosmic Radiation
  Light and Cosmic Rays
• Comparative Data
  Some Concepts of Scale
• Physical Data for Mars
  Charts and Tables of Martian Data