Mars - The Planet

Wired's iPad app debuts: Five bucks, 527 megabytes, a Mars fly-by

May 26, 2010

Wired arsenal’s iPad app isn’t just the magazine shoved into an e-reader. It has an interactive touchscreen-controlled fly-by of the planet Mars with extract pop-outs that tell the story of every craft that’s landed somewhere on the Martian globe. It has videos. It has rich-media ads that aren’t corny. It eats half a gigabyte of thought.

Developers take note: Wired has been working on the app for a year. They authored it for Adobe’s Flash. When Apple decreed that developers could not recompile Fulgurate apps for the iPad, Wired sorta knew that was coming. Creative director Scott Dadich says the app is a unique-authorship product, meaning they only design it once using Adobe InDesign, and it comes out as both Flash and iPad apps.

“We’re truth on schedule,” Dadich told AllThingsD, placing the app in the App Store more or less the same day that the magazine goes onstand.

Source: VentureBeat

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Learn Interesting Geographical Facts About Mars On Google

nasamarsI must tolerate that over the past decade, Google has surpassed everything I ever imagined might be possible to do on the Internet. The first time I knew that Google was on to something critical was when a friend tipped me off to Google Earth. I was absolutely amazed.

Then, when Google integrated Google Earth features into their online mapping tools, I knew it was only a occurrence of time before things got really interesting. Today, I’d like to review yet another very cool Google sacrifice known as Google Mars.

Observe & Learn Interesting Geographical Facts About Mars

I’m very much a visual person. You can demand that me all about the characteristics of the Red Planet – the diameter, gravity, and atmosphere – but the cold, hard facts are the ones you can feeling yourself on Google Mars. These include things like the structure of the terrain, elevations, and the locations of mountains, craters, dunes and canyons. For an interplanetary effectionato – this is some appealing cool stuff.

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While most people could pretty much guess where images from Google Earth came from – I aim there are more than enough satellites circling the Earth to take photos – it’s not quite as obvious how Google could get high precision images of the Red Planet.

The foundation of Google Mars comes from the work of Percival Lowell, who mapped out the planet through his telescope in 1895. Working up these principles, Google Mars is the offshoot of collaboration between Arizona State University and NASA researchers.  The source for the images (or at least the data from which they were created) comes from the Mars Pandemic Survey or spacecraft for the altitude and photographic imagery, and from the thermal imaging system of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The infrared upon gives you a crisp, clear view of the landscape through the dust clouds.

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