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Nasa's image gallery UI is such a pain to use, I wish someone would upload these into a more user friendly photo viewer tool.

• hanniabu 6y ago
  What's difficult about it?
  • asdff 6y ago
    Multiple clicks to get to the full resolution image. 50 thumbnails able to be viewed at a time, many uninteresting to lay people (solid gray screen, dozens of repeated images of of a portion of the rover itself, etc), for the monumental task of sifting through the 6407 images the rover has transmitted so far in mere days. Wholly unusable in a few months I imagine.
    • hanniabu 6y ago
      Maybe over the weekend if I can carve out a few hours I'll put together an open source site and share here.
    • kgrimes2 6y ago
      The site isn't great, no. But the reason there's so many repeated images is because NASA doesn't want to be accused of hiding anything. If they're taking photos for calibration, we get those, just like if they're taking stunning panoramas.
      • phist_mcgee 6y ago
        And to a science agency, I don't think their top priority is selecting the best 4k wallpaper for easy download. I honestly don't mind government sites, they are usually thoroughly boring and very conservative with their design, which means that even old people like my dad can click around and use it. I think that's a good thing.
        • kgrimes2 6y ago
          That being said, there are NASA sites that are more curated, like https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/beta https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/beta