Live From Mars ended in December 1997. Please see Mars Team Online for a more recent project about Mars.

During the course of the Live From Mars project, various NASA experts will be available for live interactions with students.

Also, weekly sessions are held to connect adults using LFM with one another and with Live From Mars staff. These regularly scheduled WebChats can provide a chance to get familiar with the system before a scheduled conference with a NASA expert.

These events happen using Web chat, a technology in which you type brief thoughts while others are doing the same thing.

Chatting with Mars experts

Join us again in January for new series of Web chats!
Schedule to be posted here soon.

Thank you to everyone who participated in chats during the first part of the school year! Your excellent questions made these chats extremely valuable, both for kids around the world and for the Mars experts!

Chat with you in January!

Archive of Web chats with Mars experts.


To participate in the Live From Mars chats it is necessary to register in advance. All you need to do is RSVP no less than 24 hours in advance in order to reserve a space for yourself. You will receive confirmation of your registration and a password to enter the chat room.

Click here to join or observe the chat.

Chatting with other teachers, LFM staff and others

This link will take you to a chat room for unmoderated discussions intended for teachers who are using Live From Mars and all of the NASA Quest projects. The point is to collaborate with your peers to determine how this project can best help in learning. Often there will be nobody in this chat room. You might try to come back on Thursdays for regularly scheduled Web chats according to the schedule listed at the linked site. Or arrange to meet a friend here at a specific time for discussions about NASA, space, K-12 and the Internet.

Archive of Web chats with teachers and Live From Mars staff