marsroVR: Ares 3 1.0
Free Version
Publisher Description
marsroVR: Ares 3 - Explore the Ares 3 site on Mars from "The Martian" in virtual reality!
Explore the Ares 3 site on Mars from Andy Weir's "The Martian" in virtual reality!
Data from HiRISE (uahirise.org) - NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Rendered by RAVE - Aiden Lab (rave.rice.edu)
Developed by Muhammad Shamim & Marie Hoeger
Music - Pale Blue Dot by Stellardrone
Excerpt below from article by Alfred McEwen
In “The Martian” by Andy Weir, stranded astronaut Mark Watney spends most of his time at the “Ares 3” site in southern Acidalia Planitia. The book describes Acidalia as flat and easy to drive over; he even drives to the Pathfinder landing site and back. This region of Mars is actually far more diverse, interesting, and hazardous to drive over than depicted in the novel.
Much of Acidalia Planitia is covered by dense fields of boulders up to several meters high that would be difficult to drive around. There are also fissures associated with giant polygons, with steep rocky slopes that would be impassable. There are elongated fields of dense secondary craters where the surface is extremely rough at scales near the size of the rover. When our hero travels into Arabia Terra it is described as much rockier than Acidalia, but the opposite is generally true: much of Arabia is dust mantled and smooth at the scale of a rover.
People commonly assume that smooth at large scales (kilometers) means smooth at small scales (meters to tens of meters). Often on Mars, the exact opposite is seen: large flat low areas are more wind-scoured, removing fine materials and leaving rocks and eroded bedrock.
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IMPORTANT: To properly view the app, a Virtual Reality headset (e.g. Google Cardboard, Durovis Dive, or Samsung Gear VR) should be used.
About marsroVR: Ares 3
marsroVR: Ares 3 is a free app for Android published in the Teaching & Training Tools list of apps, part of Education.
The company that develops marsroVR: Ares 3 is RAVE. The latest version released by its developer is 1.0.
To install marsroVR: Ares 3 on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-10-07 and was downloaded 6 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the marsroVR: Ares 3 as malware as malware if the download link to org.aidenlab.mars_rovr_ares3 is broken.
How to install marsroVR: Ares 3 on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the marsroVR: Ares 3 is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by marsroVR: Ares 3 will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- marsroVR: Ares 3 will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
