Mars Pathfinder Photos: A Spielberg hoax?
Information type: web page ("press release" and photos)
Description: "Photographic evidence was unveiled showing that the 4th of July Mars landing of a robot vehicle in a cluster of air bags was in fact a clever hoax. Like Orson Welles before him, Steven Spielberg now joins history's ranks of great hoaxes." From these opening lines, this web page goes on to describe in press release format how Steven Spielberg got his friend George Lucas to "make it look plausible" that the Sojourner rover had actually landed on Mars. Photos are included on the web page that look like the actual Pathfinder and Sojourner photos but enlarged and showing Steven Spielberg standing in the background. This is a clever and fun page and a great page for conspiracy theorists.
Location where found: http://www.widgetmagic.com/mars.htm
Browsing/Search tool used: Yahoo search of the World Wide Web
Path(s) taken to reach destination: A Yahoo search with only "Mars" in the search line came up with this web page in the listing. A simple click got me there.
Bibliographic Citation: author unknown. Mars Pathfinder Photos: A Spielberg hoax?. [Online] Available http://www.widgetmagic.com/mars.htm, July 25, 1997.

NASA Names First Rover to Explore the Surface of Mars
Information type: web page (archived press release)
Description: After a year-long, worldwide competition in which students up to 18 years old were invited to select a heroine and submit an essay about her historical accomplishments, the name Sojourner was chosen for robotic explorer of Mars. This press release tells about the 12 year old winner's essay about Sojourner Truth. It also lists other winners and their suggested names, including Sacajewea, Amelia Earhart, Athena, Harriet Tubman, and Thumbelina.
Location where found: http:mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/rover/name.html
Browsing/Search tool used: Yahoo search of World Wide Web
Path(s) taken to reach destination: The same Yahoo search that turned up the Spielberg hoax, turned up this article.
Bibliographic Citation: NASA. NASA Names First Rover to Explore the Surface of Mars. [Online] Available http:mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/rover/name.html, July 14, 1995.

Mars Global Surveyor Detects Martian Magnetic Field as Aerobraking Begins
Information type: News Group article (from newsgroup: fido7.ru.space)
Description: "The [Pathfinder's] magnetometer, which began making measurements of Mars' magnetic field after its capture into orbit, . . . detected the magenetic field on Sept. 15. The existence of a planetary magentic field has important implications for the geological history of Mars and for the possible development and continued existence of life on Mars." This article goes on to explain how the magnetic field was found and what the significance of this finding is.

A fun side note: another newsgroup article close to this one in the list says "Actually, the magnetic field of Mars was not discovered by the Mars Global Surveyor, but by the analysis of Garry Denke's meteorites from Mars, as previously first published here in [the newsgroup] sci.geo.meteorology. But many scientists versed in the subject refer to Garry Denke as the Mars Global Surveyor, so it is quite possible that the above news report is correct. In any case, it is nice to see that all U.S. Scientists have verified Garry Denke's discovery of the magnetic field of Mars through their `Surveyor'."
Location where found: http://xp7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=%3c2190001943@p26.f3.n5054.z2.fidonet.ftn%3e&server=db97p4x&CONTEXT=876583954.1258619123&hitnum=4
Browsing/Search tool used: DejaNews search of Usenet
Path(s) taken to reach destination: From Classroom Connect's web page, I picked "DejaNews" and typed in "Mars" at the search prompt.
Bibliographic Citation: Isbell, Douglas et.al. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science,Washington, DC.) [Online] Available http://xp7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=%3c2190001943@p26.f3.n5054.z2.fidonet.ftn%3e&server=db97p4x&CONTEXT=876583954.1258619123&hitnum=4, September 18, 1997.

Mars Gives Up More Earthlike Secrets
Information type: News Group article (from Reuters News Service)
Description: The batteries aren't dead, Sojourner and Pathfinder live on. This article outlines some of the findings that scientists are making from the information sent back to Earth by Pathfinder and Sojourner. It also disspells some myths that have emerged about the Mars spacecraft and explains some of the things that have been happening. For example, "The mission was originally scheduled to last one month and had far suprassed all expectations for durability and the amount of scientific material it has returned...The Pathfinder team re- established contact with the lander . . . after a week of silence, and keeping contact was a matter of making sure Pathfinder's high-gain antenna was pointing towards Earth in transmission periods . . . Describing some of the craft's recent results, relayed back to Earth before Pathfinder fell silent, . . . a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said one of the strongest pieces of evidence indicating Mars used to be a lot like Earth was the presence of pebbles on the surface."
Location where found: http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/971009/news/stories/mars_2.html
Browsing/Search tool used: Lynx search of World Wide Web
Path(s) taken to reach destination:
After getting to Lynx on TENET, I typed "G" for "Go" and went to "http://yahoo.com".
Arrowed to "Science" category, then
Astronomy
Solar System
Planets
Mars
Mars Pathfinder
first article; then I
toggled "Capture Session" on
scrolled through the pages
toggled "Capture Session" on
Bibliographic Citation: Miller, Michael. Mars Gives Up More Earthlike Secrets. [Online] Available http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/971009/news/stories/mars_2.html, October 9, 1997.

Mars - Three Color Composite
Information type: Gopher document
Description: This is a four sentence long paragraph describing how color images of Mars are made. It took about six times as long to find it as it took to read it. It is interesting to note that "Mars' atmosphere scatters blue light, much like that of Earth..."
Location where found:
gopher://sir.univ-rennes1.fr:70/00/Astro%20Gopher/hst/docs/mars.txt
Browsing/Search tool used: Veronica search of Gopher space
Path(s) taken to reach destination:
opened http://www.classroom.net
clicked on "???Searching" icon
under "Gopher Searching", clicked on "Veronica" hypertext
clicked on "Find GOPHER DIRECTORIES by Title word(s) (via SCS Nevada)" hypertext
typed in "Mars" for the keyword
opened the 16th Mars folder down the list
opened the "docs" folder
opened "mars.txt"
Bibliographic Citation: author unknown. MARS - THREE COLOR COMPOSITE Wide Field/Planetary Camera. gopher://sir.univ- rennes1.fr:70/00/Astro%20Gopher/hst/docs/mars.txt, date unknown (downloaded September 10, 1997).