From: "Rshaid, Gabriel " <rshaid_g@lincoln.edu.ar>
Subject: Mars Academy #1 - Web chat with NASA Astronomer
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:08:51 -0400
Hello! Greetings from the Mars Academy at Lincoln High School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our current activity involves defining the mission goals and choosing a suitable landing site for our study of a manned mission to Mars. We have included at http://www.marsacademy.com/l_site.htm a series of documents on Mars, the possibility of finding life on Mars and the missions to the Red Planet together with many related links that can help us approach the problem. Web Chat with NASA astronomer ------------------------------------------- Next Tuesday, March 3rd at 1100 EST, we will have a Web chat with Dr. Jim Bell, a planetary scientist from Cornell University. Dr. Bell holds a Ph.D.in Planetary Geosciences from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is a Research Associate at Cornell University, Department of Astronomy, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research and Visiting Astronomer, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility for NASA Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Mission. During our web chat on Tuesday, we will ask Dr. Bell questions about the geology of Mars that will help us in choosing our landing site. If you are interested in participating in the chat please email us at grshaid@marsacademy.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Please visit our Web site at : http://www.marsacademy.com or send an email to grshaid@marsacademy.com Pooja Motwani - Danielle Vignati Fernando Martinez Gabriel Rshaid (teacher) The Mars Club Lincoln High School Buenos Aires, Argentina