Short Wave: Mars Is The Place To Go This Summer
Short Wave (NPR)

Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong talks with NPR’s Joe Palca, who explains why these launches are happening now and the goal of the missions when they get there.

California Academy of Sciences: Kinesthetic Astronomy - Mars Opposition Dance
California Academy of Sciences

Because of the different amounts of time it take for Mars and the Earth to each orbit the sun, it sometimes may look like Mars is traveling backwards. In this interactive lesson, students will learn what “retrograde” and “opposition” means in astronomy while modeling this phenomenon.

STEM Careers Coalition: Fabricating our Future
STEM Careers Coalition

How can additive manufacturing expand the horizons of human exploration?

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Flights of Fancy Story Time - "Mo the Mars Man"
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story Mo the Mars Man, a story celebrating the upcoming landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Flights of Fancy Story Time - "Mission to Mars"
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Museum educator Ann Caspari will read the original story “Mission to Mars”. We have sent landers and rovers to Mars, but we never have sent humans to explore the Red Planet.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Air & Space Live Chat - Mars (STEM in 30)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Celebrate the landing with a live chat all about Mars, featuring Abigail Harrison, aka “Astronaut Abby,” an aspiring astronaut and founder of “The Mars Generation.”