Mars, the object of centuries of intense curiosity and careful scrutiny, is now the subject of an ExInEd Electronic PictureBook authored by The Planetary Society. Images of Mars contains a brief but informative summary of the history of human interest in Mars, as well as full-color images and descriptive captions that describe the planet as revealed by Vikings I and II, one of the most productive research missions in the history of space exploration.
As the current international movement to return to Mars grows, students will find this an informative introduction to the planet and its beautiful, but hostile, terrain.
Electronic PictureBooks are HyperCard® stacks designed to run on a color Macintosh® computer with at least 2.5 megabytes of available RAM, sufficient hard disk space to contain the Electronic Picturebook, System 7.0, and HyperCard 2.1 or HyperCard Player 2.1.
This Electronic PictureBook is one of a series being produced by the Exploration in Education (ExInEd) program at the Special Studies Office of the Space Telescope Science Institute (ST ScI). The purpose of the ExInEd program is to discover new tools and approaches to relate space science and exploration to basic teaching and learning, and it involves searching for new ways to assemble and distribute the results of research, particularly images.
For more information on the ExInEd program, or to provide comments or suggestions on the Electronic PictureBook concept, please write to: Dr. Robert A. Brown, Special Studies Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218. FAX: (410) 516-7450 Internet: rbrown@stsci.edu
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