I don't know how to make this thing work on one of Billy-Boy's
computers, but it sure is beautiful on a Mac.
Thanks Marek.
Christopher
Marek Cichanski wrote:
>Here's a cool program that I saw today, although I have to admit that I
>haven't gotten it to work on my PC laptop.
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>This program, 'Mars24', shows which parts of Mars are in daylight and which
>ones are in shadow. It might have been really handy back at opposition
>time...
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>I was in San Francisco today, attending the annual Fall Meeting of the
>American Geophysical Union, sitting there in a talk about Mars, and I saw
>someone looking at this on their Mac laptop.
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>http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/
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>If anyone gets this to work on a PC, I'd be curious to find out how they
>did it. I'm pretty ignorant about Java...
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>It's too bad that AGU is so expensive (a few hundred bucks) and happens
>during the week, otherwise I'd say that everyone should go just for the
>Mars talks. Most (if not all) of the Mars bigwigs show up and give talks
>and poster sessions. There's lots of cool Mars stuff in the air. I'm
>looking forward to a whole session tomorrow about results from Mars
>Odyssey. There's a bunch of stuff about Jovian satellites, too. There's
>also a public lecture called the Sagan Lecture. I believe that one is free
>to the public. It's about extrasolar planets, and it's on Friday, although
>for some strange reason they've put it at 8:10 in the morning - goodness
>only knows why. Moscone Center West.
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>I'll be curious to hear what Mars24 looks like close-up if anyone gets it
>running.
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>Marek
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