Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
Google Mars 3d (With HiRISE!), Part of Google Earth 5 |
Feb 2 2009, 08:51 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 4172 |
Download: Google Earth 5 w/Mars
An early overview is available here. This is exactly what I've been waiting for ever since Google Earth came out five years ago. And HiRISE integration is amazing. |
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Feb 6 2009, 07:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
My screen-shots above were made on a Mac. (fully up to date OSX)
Not sure what your problem could be on your MacBook, bug with the integrated graphics maybe? (I have a iMac with dedicated graphics) -------------------- |
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Feb 6 2009, 07:35 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 399 Joined: 28-August 07 From: San Francisco Member No.: 3511 |
I too have the blue sky using a G5 PowerMac 10.4.11.
-------------------- 'She drove until the wheels fell off...'
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Feb 6 2009, 09:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 213 Joined: 21-January 07 From: Wigan, England Member No.: 1638 |
The blue sky issue appears to be a graphics card limitation:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/eart...da94c&hl=en |
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Feb 7 2009, 06:25 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1619 Joined: 12-February 06 From: Bergerac - FR Member No.: 678 |
No trouble of blue sky for me. I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6 on a Macbook Pro.
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Feb 7 2009, 07:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Curse you MacBookPro! You have a better graphics chip than I....
I think there is a UMSF upgrade cycle at work here: I need a bigger HD for the images, a better graphics card, faster internet connections. It's a racket! Doug should get a commission. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Feb 7 2009, 07:38 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I need it. Just got a new Macbook myself - 2.4ghz, 4gb Ram, 500gb HDD
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Feb 7 2009, 08:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
My Radeon 4870 is really showing its worth. I knew I would need it for something more than Fallout 3!
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Feb 7 2009, 09:09 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I'm not even gonna try downloading it till I get a better machine. My vintage 2003 Dells just aren't up to it.
After lo these many years, I might actually join the Mac crowd! My stepdaughter just visited & she brought her brand-new superthin Powerbook (?); sweet little machine that ran rings around my stuff, I am envious. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 7 2009, 10:03 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 9-September 05 From: Vancouver, BC, Canada Member No.: 489 |
I'm not even gonna try downloading it till I get a better machine. My vintage 2003 Dells just aren't up to it. After lo these many years, I might actually join the Mac crowd! My stepdaughter just visited & she brought her brand-new superthin Powerbook (?); sweet little machine that ran rings around my stuff, I am envious. Superthin Powerbook? Maybe She's got a MacBook Air? The Powerbook aren't really sprint chicken anymore ;-) |
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Feb 7 2009, 10:05 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yeah, that's it; afraid I'm not up on Mac terminology. Really cool little computer, though.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 7 2009, 11:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3431 Joined: 11-August 04 From: USA Member No.: 98 |
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Feb 10 2009, 04:09 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14433 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Does anyone know how to load other CTX images / HiRISE images into the landscape—the ones where you see the little orange (or red) square, but clicking on it gives you only the footprint, not the image?
And, is it possible to keep HiRISE images as the top “layer” so they’re not covered up by lower-resolution CTX images? |
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Feb 10 2009, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2262 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Melbourne - Oz Member No.: 16 |
Here is a first draft of a Google Mars file with links to all the Opportunity images I have created over the years.
http://www.nivnac.co.uk/mer/Martian_Vistas_Opportunity.kml You need to have Google Earth open and in 'Mars mode' else the links will be in the Atlantic. Click on an icon to bring up a thumbnail image then click on image to open the relevant entry on my site in a browser. Comments, corrections welcome... James -------------------- |
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Feb 11 2009, 12:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
James that's excellent!
I'm wondering if it would be possible for other contributing image processors on UMSF to do the same? Is it possible to have a simple set of intructions available here on how to do this? I'm going to start using James' image database with Google Mars in some of my outreach classes. Kids will love the interaction! Astro0 |
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Feb 11 2009, 01:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 1-June 08 Member No.: 4172 |
You could go one step further and implement them as KML PhotoOverlays, just like the official ones (with the floating cylinders)
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