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Virtual Mars Traverse: Every inch of Curiosity rover's path since 2012 landing
- raldi 7mo agoI find it so hard to figure out how close Curiosity is to the peak/ridge of Mt Sharp and whether/when it seems likely to cross over to the other side.
- zokier 7mo agoHere is a map: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/ https://science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-curiosity/location-map/ It's nowhere near the peak and is very unlikely to reach it.
- engineer_22 7mo agothis is really cool but it's missing a lot of context... like... they're taking pictures of the ground beneath their feet. it would be a very autistic way to tell the story of a hobbit's journey without the context of what they're looking at and why. this slideshow is missing a narrative. people normally travel and orient themselves by landmarks. their journeys are related amongst themselves by language surrounding common landmarks. maybe the narrative for the rover isn't available
- pimlottc 7mo agoI assume the different angles are different cameras mounted at different parts of the rover and used for different images? It would be nice to be able to select a particular camera and just follow the view from that, say.
- engineer_22 7mo agoYup
- zokier 7mo agoI don't think it's cool to hotlink every single raw image from NASAs server here.
- embedding-shape 7mo agoGenerally yeah, but NASA seems to explicitly allow hot linking? > NASA images may be used as graphic “hot links” to NASA websites, provided they are used within the guidelines above. https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/ https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/ As long as you don't "explicitly or implicitly convey NASA’s endorsement of commercial goods or services" and "NASA should be acknowledged as the source of the material" they seem fine with it. Seems this project does miss that last part though, I don't see any mention of where the images are from.
- sgt 7mo agoCool but... I am pretty sure that it took photos that aren't close ups. All of those photos are all close up of rocks and I am sure it took some more wide angle shots too? Or some showing the horizon at the very least. I can't find any of those here as I work my way down the path.
- pimlottc 7mo agoPlease create an option to automatically move forward through time so you can see an animated version of the journey. And please get rid of the fade-in/fade-out transition when you switch images, it makes it harder to see the difference between shots. It would also be nice to be able to move forward/backwards through photos keyboard (e.g. arrow keys). There's also some sort of toggles on the map pane to different views (zoom levels?) but they're not labeled nor do they have any sort of tooltips so it's not very clear what they do.
- kelsolaar 7mo agoI came to say exactly this, keyboard navigation please and automatic playback!
- bookofjoe 7mo agoNot one comment praising the existence of this site. Remarkable.
- givinguflac 7mo agoI really don’t understand the lack of mobile access. Even requesting desktop site changes nothing. You really can’t make what’s effectively a slideshow/streetview work on mobile? I don’t care if it’s not as good on mobile, just that I can access it. Seems like a cool idea, but not about to hop over to my desktop to check it out though.
- nosrepa 7mo agoNot to mention the constant flashing on the mobile page.
- themanmaran 7mo agoMaybe a naive question, why doesn't this doesn't look like google street view? Not OP's app in particular, but the underlying data from NASA. Nowadays the 360º cameras are $400 and work really well. Obviously we're working off of 2012 tech here. But it seems like it would be enormously useful to have a full 3d image every 20 feet like google street view. Is this really just a power / bandwidth limitation?