Eyes on the Solar System |
Eyes on the Solar System |
Nov 4 2010, 02:21 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
Eyes on the Solar System is JPLs cool new tool for we 'armchair explorers' to use and follow spacecraft as they explore space.
Check it out here. As Doug said: ...go find the NEAR mission and watch it's orbital phase with Eros.... see the Pioneer 11 flyby of Jupiter, and go 'OMFG' at the Ulysses trajectory. There's a million things we're still trying to put into it - chances are any suggestions someone might have, we've already got it on a very very unfunded list of 'love to put in...' - but make suggestions So go for it. Try it out and if you have some cool ideas, leave a message here. |
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Nov 4 2010, 04:56 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
It's a thought. We're using the same data you do basically ( SPICE ) so they should tie up. The system is very very flexible ( look at the URL for the EPOXI Live, for example - it just calles Eyes... with a document that defines the 'live' experience, and this could be done for just about anything.
Meanwhile - if anyone's thinking "wtf?" http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/tutorials.html Yup - that was me, in a recording booth, for 3 hrs. |
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Nov 4 2010, 05:51 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
It's a thought. We're using the same data you do basically ( SPICE ) so they should tie up. The system is very very flexible ( look at the URL for the EPOXI Live, for example - it just calles Eyes... with a document that defines the 'live' experience, and this could be done for just about anything. The web unity player just crashed my firefox ... :-( Anyway, personally, I would prefer if it could create a "snapshot" of the view, similar to the solar system simulator, as the whole application takes a long time to read, and I fear interference with my javascripts. Meanwhile, do you have a "url map" to the live missions you cover? I can use that to provide a link from my pages to Eyes on a mission by mission basis. -------------------- |
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