FTP AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV (128.102.18.3)
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NASA AMES

    Extensive archives are maintained at NASA Ames and are available via
    anonymous FTP or an email server. These archives include many images and
    a wide variety of documents including this FAQ list, NASA press
    releases, shuttle launch advisories, and mission status reports. Please
    note that these are NOT maintained on an official basis.

    FTP users should connect to ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) and look in
    pub/SPACE. pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the
    archive (the index is about 200K by itself).

    To access the archives by email, send a letter to
    archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames]archive-server). In the
    subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like:

        send SPACE Index
        send SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91.

    The capitalization of the subdirectory names is important. All are in
    caps. Only text files (no images) may be sent by email at present.

    The Magellan Venus and Voyager Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus CD-ROM image
    disks that had been put online in the CDROM and CDROM2 directories, are
    now available on explorer.arc.nasa.gov in the cdrom directory. The
    disks will be rotated on a weekly basis. Thousands of images are
    available in these collections. Organization is by probe and planet, on
    a per disc basis (you figure that one out]).

    The GIF directory contains images in GIF format. A few have been
    uuencoded so that they be mailed, but unfortunately the majority will
    not survive mailing. This will be rectified in the future. The VICAR
    directory contains Magellan images in VICAR format (these are also
    available in the GIF directory). A PC program capable of displaying
    these files is found in the IMDISP directory, although it is still a
    binary file (ZIP format) and so it is not suitable for mailing at this
    time. (But see the item "VIEWING IMAGES" below).

    The NASA media guide describes the various NASA centers and how to
    contact their public affairs officers; this may be useful when pursuing
    specific information. It's in MISC/media.guide.

    Any problems with the archive server should be reported to Peter Yee
    (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov)
    (yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov)


Interesting directories:

  pub/GIF                    Neptuno GIFs
  pub/SPACE                  News, GIFs, Software
  pub/SPACE/GIF              Magellan, Pioneer, Voyager GIFs
  pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE         Software IMDISP for viewing GIFs
