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Program Information
The Purpose of this exhibition.
Our aim is to help families with grade-school children as well as teachers and students in learning about Mars and to serve as a basis for understanding the ongoing NASA Mars mission, which will likely be one of the most important aspects of our country's space exploration in the next decades. To Mars! will help people understand the global and community issues facing us here on Earth that Mars education can help illuminate.
The Educational Concept of this exhibition.
As we enter a new millennium and exploration of the universe reaches farther and farther, we find that discoveries in outer space and on other planets help us to understand Earth and to improve our quality of life right here in our own backyard.
Just as scientists are discovering that the red planet's history might help us predict Earth's future, students are making important connections between space exploration and their own study of past and present life on Earth in science, arts, and culture.
To Mars! helps us to see the connections between science and art, past and present technology, cultural migration on Earth and space exploration, and where we've been and where we're headed. Of all the planets, Mars is by far the most similar to Earth; however, there are significant differences between these two planets that affect every aspect of how we explore, and potentially visit or colonize, Mars.
"What you love most might be clearer from afar, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain".