MSL Landing live streams, Post links here to provide options in case some get overloaded Options

[elakdawalla]

Because of the preceding question, I vote that Doug redo the entire sim in Smoots.

[djellison]

It's normal terra-firma miles. Of course, you can switch to KM under visual controls

But yes - I think spoots/second is probably the best

[monty python]

WOW. great work. I didn't know how brief the "sky crane" phase was.

[Borek]

The Eyes on the Solar System EDL module is now live. We've moved the URL as well.
http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov ( or just eyes.nasa.gov )
It's kind of cool

Java :-(

[djellison]

Java :-(

Java >>>>>> Unity browser plugin.

[vjkane]

Because of the preceding question, I vote that Doug redo the entire sim in Smoots.

For those not steeped in MIT or Boston history, you can read the definition and history of smoots here. (scroll down to 'Definition: smoot').

[ugordan]

The Eyes on the Solar System EDL module is now live.

This is quite neat. Shades of the Phoenix EDL sim, only interactive. I did apparently uncover a bug, though. The hi-res landing area overlay is unaffected by zoom and only looks correct at the default 60 deg FOV.

[ddeerrff]

"Initialization failed: Scene definition download failed" after clicking the 'Click Here' button. I'm sure I'm missing something simple.

[imipak]

I swallowed my swivel-eyed zealot Free software principles and turned to the Windows 7 laptop work foisted on me... the page hangs with an attractive image of Cassini at Saturn and the message "Loading Eyes on the Solar System... If prompted, please allow permission to load..." after clicking through the MSL link from the front page.

There don't seem to be any hidden dialog boxes behind the browser window, wandering focus, etc.

Windows 7 Enterprise, all current patches
MSIE v 8.0.7600.16385
JRE version 7 update 1 (build 1.7.0_01-b08)

(Edit: EotSS worked on this machine a couple of weeks ago.)

[djellison]

This is quite neat. Shades of the Phoenix EDL sim, only interactive. I did apparently uncover a bug, though. The hi-res landing area overlay is unaffected by zoom and only looks correct at the default 60 deg FOV.

Yeah - that's a symptom of a double-precision world being rendered on top of the normal 'Eyes..' - it's a mega kludge to get this thing working. We're going to just disable the zoom for the time-being. This one was on our list but needed a reminder - thanks.

I'm sending one of the Dev's this way to look at the Java based issues.

[jmknapp]

Windows 7 Enterprise, all current patches
MSIE v 8.0.7600.16385
JRE version 7 update 1 (build 1.7.0_01-b08)

(Edit: EotSS worked on this machine a couple of weeks ago.)

Works fine on my Win7 systems with Chrome browser.

[djellison]

For me it works fine on Win7 with FF or Chrome, OSX 10.6 on Safari, FF and Chrome, and 10.8 took some tricking (you can only activate java by spotlighting for java preferences) - but then it worked great. Infact, my little 13" Macbook Air is getting 30fps+

[Eutectic]

For those not steeped in MIT or Boston history, you can read the definition and history of smoots here. (scroll down to 'Definition: smoot').

The official history is a little different than the one I heard in college, which had more to do with drinking and rolling. The smoot marks were still painted on the bridge when I was in school nearby, allegedly refreshed by underclassmen.

Getting back on thread, I experienced no major issues with "Eyes..." on Mac OS 10.6.8 "Snow Leopard" with Firefox and standard updates.

[djellison]

Our cunning Java guru developer had this to say....

"predictions - ddeerrff is behind a proxy and imipak is using a 64-bit version of IE {which does not load the java plugin}."

He's putting some more bug-reporting stuff in place tonight.

D

[Astro0]

Just ran it on a 4 metre wide screen to about 100 people using crappy old WinXP machine running latest Java.
Worked smoothly

Audience gasped at skycrane sequence! Perfect