Ares:
Life on Mars?
Volume 1 - Issue 3
Spring 2000 Focus on Astrobiology and the Search for Life on
Mars.
Overview
Contents
Known Issues
System Requirements
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Overview
The third issue of Ares will focus
on the emerging field of Astrobiology and the search for Life on Mars.
We have permission to include an
astrobiology newsletter MarsBugs which has been published since
1996. We're also looking for other materials and your ideas for what we
can include are always welcome. Email us at ares-cdrom@chapters.marssociety.org
Table
of Contents
Forward
MarsBugs
by Dr. David Thomas, Astrobiologist
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Ares Featured
Content
- Research Papers about Life on
Mars, viking experiments, astrobiology.
- General information about Mars
& missions (from MarsNews.com)
- Clickable Mars Atlas
(NASA/Ames)
- Images from Mars Global
Surveyor / Pathfinder / Viking / Mariner
- Mars Videos & Screensavers
from
The
Red Planet Mars DVD (MarsDVD.com)
- Research Papers about Mars
exploration and settlement issues
The Mars Society
- Chapter One of The Case for
Mars
by Dr. Robert Zubrin, President of the Mars Society
- The Founding Declaration of
The Mars Society
- Archive of all official
bulletins from the Mars Society
- Official Mars Society slide
show and script
- Other information and
multimedia features
Cover
Design Contest
We are having a contest to design
the cover of this Issue. Please submit your cover design ideas to the Ares
Mailing List -- the ones we don't use we'll post here on the website
like last time. The
focus of this issue is learning about mars and educational outreach, so design
your cover accordingly. Please do not use any works we require
permission to use -- NASA images & works are public domains so they can be
used. Click
here for first issue's cover design contest.
Known
Issues Issue #3 has
not yet shipped. Check back after we've released the code for any new
problems we've found.
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Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0,
or Windows 2000
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or
Netscape Navigator 4.0 or above
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or open the
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Click Start, select Run and type in the
box:
D:\ie5\win32\ie5setup.exe
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above
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or
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