Mars 2004 - 21st Century Complete Guide to Mars Exploration: Past, Present, and Future Robotic and Manned Missions to the Red Planet ¿ Includes Mars 2000 plus New Missions

by World Spaceflight News

This comprehensive set of four CD-ROMs provides a thoroughly revised and updated guide to past, present, and future robotic and manned missions to the Red Planet.

The set incorporates the contents of our best-selling CD-ROM, Mars 2000, and adds significant material including over ten thousand pages, almost 2000 images and 87 video clips!

Missions and programs included in Mars 2004 include:

* Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Mars Images, including the August 2003 close encounter * NASA's Mars Exploration Program through 2003 * NASA Mars Exploration Program Gallery of Images * Manned Mission and Advanced Life Support material * NASA Mars Education material * Mars Global Surveyor MGS Wide Angle Map of Mars * Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit and Opportunity Mission - basic information * Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) 2005 mission * Investigative Reports on the Failures of Mars Polar Lander, Deep Space 2, and Mars Climate Orbiter Mission (part of Mars Surveyor Program '98) in 1999 * Imager for Mars Pathfinder, 1997 rover mission * Phoenix Mars Scout Mission lander (Mars Surveyor Program '01 lander) scheduled for launch in August 2007 * VIKING ORBITER VIEWS OF MARS (SP-441) * NASA Center for Mars Exploration (embedded QuickTime format movies) * Mars Exploration Rover, Mars Express Science Information * Martian Radiation and Environment Experiment aboard 2001 Odyssey * Spectacular Gallery of Mars Orbiter Camera (Mars Global Surveyor) Images in PDF format

This CD-ROM set has over 29,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems, and Reader software is included. Advanced search and indexing features are built into our reproduction, providing a complete full-text index. This enables the user to search all the files on the disk at one time for words or phrases using just one search command! The Acrobat cataloging technology adds enormous value and uncommon functionality to this impressive collection of government documents and material. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, and portable!

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched, or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc set makes a great reference work and educational tool.

29935 pages, CD-ROM

First published October 1, 2003