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A couple of posts ago we showed how to use content from the Geography Network and the USGS PIGWAD site to turn ArcGIS Explorer into a Mars Explorer. George Dailey, ESRI Education Manager, ups the ante and takes things further in a recent post on the GIS Read More...
NASA's PIGWAD (Planetary Interactive GIS-on-the-Web Analyzable Database) site offers a wealth of planetary information, including lots of information for Mars. PIGWAD's mission statement from their Web site: (1) Produce a web-based, user-friendly interface Read More...
Though only given 50-50 odds, NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander completed a successful touchdown just a short while ago, completing a remarkable 296-day, 422-million-mile journey. In celebration of the milestone, the first-ever landing near Mars' north pole, Read More...