What to do after the closure of Midnight Mars Browser? |
What to do after the closure of Midnight Mars Browser? |
Feb 10 2021, 05:00 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 1584 |
Big mastcam update! Still a work in progress, lots of loose ends to fix and the code is an absolute mess. But here it is:
Marslife currently shows the full Mastcam coverage of the selected site by using outlined placeholder images. When you click inside a placeholder area, the corresponding sequence name(s) will appear in a list below the lefthand menu. From this list you can choose the sequence you want to view and press 'LOAD' to download the images from the NASA server. Press tab to hide the placeholder images and press the 'm' key to toggle the display of both Mastcam and placeholder images. Checkout the updated preview here: https://captainvideo.nl/marslife/preview.html. Enjoy! -------------------- |
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Feb 11 2021, 11:33 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 923 Joined: 10-November 15 Member No.: 7837 |
I will be running out of superlatives soon!
Everything works well here ( using Brave browser ) Clicking between placeholders & loading is just fine & intuitive. It would be great if there was a on/off toggle for each mastcam sequence. Tab function is a great feature that is getting a lot of use! Can't wait to see where you take this... it was already awesome to begin with! Big mastcam update! Still a work in progress, lots of loose ends to fix and the code is an absolute mess. But here it is: Marslife currently shows the full Mastcam coverage of the selected site by using outlined placeholder images. When you click inside a placeholder area, the corresponding sequence name(s) will appear in a list below the lefthand menu. From this list you can choose the sequence you want to view and press 'LOAD' to download the images from the NASA server. Press tab to hide the placeholder images and press the 'm' key to toggle the display of both Mastcam and placeholder images. Checkout the updated preview here: https://captainvideo.nl/marslife/preview.html. Enjoy! -------------------- |
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Feb 12 2021, 03:00 AM
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#78
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
This new preview build is epic - I dropped a quick play by play of what it does into work slack to share it with the MSL team.
Bravo.....BRAVO. |
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Feb 12 2021, 08:12 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 1584 |
Thank you both! Much obliged Doug for showing the site to the MSL team, I'm honoured!
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Feb 16 2021, 09:01 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 1584 |
While the new rover is drawing all the attention I'm happy to report that the update script for Marslife now includes support for Curiosity's L&R Mastcam images.
Marslife will automatically add new Mastcam images to the corresponding post-drive panorama as soon as the Nasa json file receives an update. Check Marslife here: https://marslife.org -------------------- |
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Feb 17 2021, 11:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 4256 Joined: 17-January 05 Member No.: 152 |
This is really nice. Just a couple of comments: Is there any ability to zoom in or out without a scroll wheel or touch screen? (Eg, shift-click.) I couldn't see how to do that with desktop firefox or chrome.
A fun feature might be to display the latest planned ("strategic") route, so we can get some idea of where we're headed. Of course that's only provisional, and someone would have to digitize that route. |
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Feb 18 2021, 09:37 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 11-January 07 From: Amsterdam Member No.: 1584 |
Is there any ability to zoom in or out without a scroll wheel or touch screen? Hey fredk, thanks for the feedback. Keyboard zoom was indeed missing and has been added to the - and = keys next to the keyboard numbers, I hope this solution works for you. Digitizing strategic routes will be quite a challenge because the elevation data is also required. -------------------- |
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Feb 18 2021, 01:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 968 Joined: 15-June 09 From: Lisbon, Portugal Member No.: 4824 |
Of course that's only provisional, and someone would have to digitize that route. Someone did ... see post #1392 of the MSL Route Map thread. Fernando PS - There should be an update in the relatively near short time |
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Feb 24 2021, 02:56 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10229 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I had noted images on the raw image page being assigned the wrong sol - like the upward views of the parachute on sol 0 being labelled sol 2 (the date needs to be when it's taken, not when received, or we will never know where we are). I hope that gets sorted out.
Thanks for doing this, it's a great tool and one which will be very useful. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Feb 25 2021, 03:59 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Several posts moved to the new Perseverance Imagery thread per recommendation of another Forum member.
-------------------- 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 25 2021, 07:32 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2431 Joined: 30-January 13 From: Penang, Malaysia. Member No.: 6853 |
I had noted images on the raw image page being assigned the wrong sol - like the upward views of the parachute on sol 0 being labelled sol 2 (the date needs to be when it's taken, not when received, or we will never know where we are). I hope that gets sorted out. Thanks for doing this, it's a great tool and one which will be very useful. Phil Doug E pointed me in the right direction after I replied on Twitter to a post where the sol numbers of EDL cameras were off-kilter. Doug told me that the time-stamp was assigned when the images were transferred from the EDL cameras to the flight computer. Like you I hope it gets sorted out, but it could be a lengthy task. |
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