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Eyes on the Solar System
djellison
post Mar 10 2011, 01:41 PM
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I was giving the writer a demo yesterday or the day before - no idea whatsoever that she was 'media'

The Kudos goes to Jon, Paul and Anton for the programming work, Brian, Christian and Chris for the 3D work. I'm just lucky enough to get to show it off.
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post Sep 5 2011, 10:16 AM
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Great that there has been a link on the JPL site for a while, but nice to finally see a dedicated article promoting Eyes.

Try it for the first time http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/
or if you haven't looked in a while, then check out new features like the ultra-cool 3D mode and all the spacecraft model updates (the Pioneers are back!)

If you do any Outreach work then you definitely want to use Eyes on the Solar System.
If you just enjoy space exploration, then share Eyes with others as well as it's cousin Eyes on the Earth 3D.

Saw it at the last JPL Open House and still wishing for Eyes on the Network (DSN) to get a public consumption release one day.
It was a perfect way to demonstrate the world wide system of antennas communicating with spacecraft across the solar system and beyond.

All three programs literally bring 'mission control' to your home.
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post Aug 9 2012, 02:26 PM
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So... I saw that Eyes now appears to be Java-based, raising my hopes that it might now be usable on Linux. But enabling Java, I just get a little grey Java window that does nothing.

It's described as a "Java launched version", and system requirements are still Windows or Mac. But it's also described as "No game-engine plug-in required", contrasting with "The classic version requires installing the Unity 3D Web Player plugin for your web browser." But there's not much more technical info.

What's going on under the hood, and is there any hope of ever persuading it to go on Linux? Is it somehow a Java wrapper for native code (Unity in non-plugin form?) that is platform-specific?

Sorry if this upgrade was covered elsewhere -- I've not yet managed to find any more details by searching either this forum or the Eyes website.
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post Aug 9 2012, 02:38 PM
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Bingo. "Is it somehow a Java wrapper for native code (Unity in non-plugin form?) that is platform-specific?" is exactly right.

The team uses Unity to develop (so we can continue to offer the legacy browser plugin version) but as yet, there is no Linux support within Unity.

Linux support is allegedly appearing in Unity 4 - at which point we will try and support it.
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post Aug 9 2012, 06:33 PM
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Thx -- will look forward patiently to that possibility smile.gif
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post Aug 26 2012, 06:24 PM
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Currently MRO drops from the Martian sky on Aug 27th at 17:43 UTC in my Eyes on the Solar system :-P


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post Aug 26 2012, 06:55 PM
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We get data updates every couple of weeks. That's when the last batch of data runs out. You'll be able to find the same thing with many many spacecraft if you look close enough.
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