Learn more about Antarctica and Mars Exploration from these NASA related links

• NASA ASTEP Program
  The NASA The ASTEP program stems from two divisions of the NASA Office of Space Science (OSS) , the Solar System Exploration (SSE) Division and the Mars Exploration Program . ASTEP also has roots in the Origins science theme, part of the Astronomy and Physics Division of the OSS.
  
• NASA Astrobiology Portal
  The NASA Astrobiology Portal provides the reader with the latest news regarding advances within the field of astrobiology.
  
  
• NASA Astrobiology Institute
  NASA Astrobiology Institute carries out collaborative research and education in astrobiology, the interdisciplinary science that seeks answers to these fundamental questions. It supports investigation of these issues on Earth and serves as a portal to space for the scientific community.
  
  
• Mars Life Detection
  Mars Life Detection focuses on the physics and chemistry of life, using a variety of imaging methods over many spatial scales, and a variety of chemical methods that measure many different chemical parameters at many spatial scales. Coupled with these methods is the search within the images and within the chemistry for complexity and information.
  
  
• NASA Mars Exploration
  Conditions on Mars vary wildly from what we know on our own planet. NASA Mars Exploration is dedicated to answering questions regarding possible life on Mars by observing features like dry riverbeds, ice in the polar caps and rock types on the red planet.