3D Images from the Curiosity Rover
I’ve started a new page based an old project I worked on with a buddy years ago for the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers. I trashed all our old code and rewrote from scratch.
NASA doesn’t generally release every single possible 3D image out there. I wanted to see it all. So I’ve written a couple of scripts that dig through NASA’s image servers and find the images that come from a ‘left’ and ‘right’ camera then finds any of those with matching time stamps. It then downloads them and creates them into 3D masterpieces. Some are awesome, many are crap. I’ll let you decide. I’ll have to tweak the code as I go as JPL brings online new cameras.
If you have some old red/blue 3D glasses lying around check out this page I made. The page is basic as hell because I’m a geek, not a designer. I wanted results, not pretty. 🙂
I did this after Spirit and Opportunity landed and it ate me alive in bandwidth costs. We’ll see how it goes this time. With only one lander there might be less pics but with higher quality cmas the images might be bigger.