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Open source software costs nothing, but enables people to do great things with it. This is the #opensource software/data I've been using to create maps, process images, make animations etc. related to #NASA's #Mars2020 mission:

#GIMP : gimp.org
#Geogebra : geogebra.org
#ImageMagick : imagemagick.org
#QGIS : https : qgis.org
#Stellarium : stellarium.org

@kevinmgill's and @stim3on's flats: github.com/kmgill/mars-raw-uti…

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in reply to 65dBnoise

More #NASA JSON feeds regarding data transfers between orbiters and rovers/Earth, provided by Russ, mastodon.social/@russss :

1. mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=ma…
2. mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=ma…
3. mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=ma…
4. mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=mi…

I will add to this list any I forgot, or any I'll use in the future.
When the raw materials and the tools are free, what counts is the effort one puts in to make the final product what it is.

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#nasa
in reply to 65dBnoise

Acquired sample data: mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=m2…

You can download the location of the samples as a GeoJSON file from here (see image): https://mars.nasa.gov/maps/?mission=M2

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Space

in reply to 65dBnoise

Anyone reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars Trilogy" or any part of it quickly realizes that while the novels are full of technical details, there are very few maps and those that exist are very coarse.

So, here are 4 Mercator and 1 polar maps showing cities, places and plot info, created while I was reading the novels. The background is a USGS Topographical Map from Wikipedia: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Suggestions and corrections (with references) are welcome!

#KSR #MarsTrilogy #Space #Mars

in reply to 65dBnoise

thanks, just re-read the trilogy and there was indeed a map attempt, in the pocket edition... Yours fell way better and complete!
in reply to Jaxom Kaplan

Thanks! I think I read somewhere that the absence of a detailed map was intentional by the author, but having one made the plot appear more real. Like your motto says, without a map it didn't happen :)
in reply to 65dBnoise

Thanks. It was really missing.
The low-tech map of Middle Earth made sense.
But the lack of an high-res map for the novel of reference in hard science-fiction is illogical.
in reply to Spaceflight 🚀

Oh! I see. I can download Mars maps. They are low-res but cool! Maybe I can set a WMS with better tiles. 👍 !
in reply to 65dBnoise

OMG, brilliant. I absolutely wanted this during my first and second reading of the trilogy
in reply to 65dBnoise

Dear @65dBnoise It's on my list! Just discovered KSR after reading his Sierra range love letter and just recently Years of Rice and Salt.
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in reply to ES Michelson

Ah, you won't regret it. I hope these maps will help visualize where the action is taking place.
in reply to 65dBnoise

It is also important to talk about and share those projects, so that their devs now that their work is acutally appreciated. Obiously the only currency available in the FOSS world.
in reply to 65dBnoise

I'm a newcomer to #ESA's Planetary Science Archive. Here is how I decode images in the PSA archive with GIMP:

• Linux: You will need to compile a plugin, written by Holger Isenberg, twitter.com/areoinfo
• Source code/Windows executable for the plugin: areo.info/gimp/gimp-2.8/
• Linux: also needed is the file gimpcompat.h e.g. from here: github.com/mskala/noxcf-gimp/b…
• Better read the README file first 🙂

Then you will be able to process images like this:

#opensource #ESA #GIMP #Mars #Phobos

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