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- Another Dayplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigAnother Day
A busy day today. I had an interview for a job today, so fingers crossed. Orbital Calculator got some attention too: I added the ability to have escape velocities output in km, metres or miles (per second) in the Gravity and Motion calculations - previously, output was just in km/s. I've tested and compiled and tested again, and I'll zip up the various releases and upload them to this site tomorrow (actually, later today - it's nearly 3am!). - Hogfather Update 2plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigHogfather Update 2
The Website will be down for a short period Sun, Aug 2nd 2020 while the site is upgraded
I shall be taking the site down for a while on Sun, Aug 2nd 2020, while i perform the upgrade. Although I have a local copy of the website, I also do a bit of experimentation on it, so the two are not perfectly synchronised, so I'll have to make a backup of the site and download it first. It'll actually take longer to do that than perform the update. It should all be over in less than tw… - InSight's Final Selfieplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigInSight's Final Selfie
[InSight's Final Selfie] The InSight lander is in the final stages of of its extended mission. This image, taken on April 24th 2022, is it's last selfie.
There was a possibility to keep going until the last operating science experiment had to be turned off, and then InSight would keep operating on safe mode until it eventually ran out of power. - Jezero Weather Dataplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigJezero Weather Data
The Perseverance Rover has been sending back weather data. Now that InSight has officially retired from the weather business, I'll be collecting the weather data from Perseverance in Jezero Crater.
It'll take me a while to get setup, and the data being returned is quite different. The InSight weather page will be renamed so it can still be accessed. - Adjustment to Mars Clocksplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigAdjustment to Mars Clocks
[Martian clock showing time at the prime meridian] The Martian clocks (keeping Martian time) on the Mars Weather page also display the L (pron. ell sub ess) - a way of describing where the planet is in its orbit, and the displacement of the sun in the sky at midday. I noticed the value for this was out by some distance, and after pondering the problem (and the code) for a while, the penny dropped. - Mars July 2020plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMars July 2020
It's mid-July now, and temperatures at the InSight lander's location on Mars (south-west corner of Elysium in the northern hemisphere) are teetering on the edge and about to fall. At the end of the month - July 30th - NASA's Perseverance rover (formerly known as the Mars 2020 rover) gets its first launch opportunity. It had previously been scheduled to launch two weeks earlier but, you know, things happened. - Mars Solar Conjunctionplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMars Solar Conjunction
This page is currently INACTIVE for 2021 conjunction
Mars is heading for a solar conjunction, which in layman's terms means it's on the opposite side of the sun from the Earth. For a short period, no commands will be sent to the Mars spacecraft (which includes landers and rovers) since the sun's corona could corrupt those commands and result in unintended actions, disablement of the spacecraft or worse. - Automatic Weather Updatesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigAutomatic Weather Updates
The Mars Weather page is now 99.99% automatic, with rebuilds regularly throughout the day. The 0.001% that's not automated? Once a week I have to update the image that shows the relative positions of the inner planets. I think I can manage that - Mars Weather Page Updateplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMars Weather Page Update
[Temperature over time] I've updated the format of the Temperature Over Time chart on the Mars Weather page to make it more readable. The sol numbers were overlapping each other, despite being broken into two rows. The chart is now interactive, in that you can use your mouse (or other pointing device) to select a position on one of the temperature graphs, and the sol number will be displayed at the bottom. - News 11th Feb 2021plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigNews 11th Feb 2021
My internet connection has now been established in my new home, and the Raspberry Pi's are working their hearts out to update the pages containing NASA data. There is a brief period that Mars Weather data is temporarily lost (I assume I'll be able to recover it when the data is next uploaded to the PDS repository in about 6 months time). - News 15th Jan 2021plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigNews 15th Jan 2021
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As the Perseverance Rover approaches Mars, NASA mysteriously remove the countdown clock to the landing. Fear not, the countdown clocks on this site are still working: Perseverance Rover. Note that after the landing, the page will reflect the current mission time and other data made available. - Orbital Calculator v2.0.6 Releasedplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigOrbital Calculator v2.0.6 Released
[Orbital Calculator v2.0.6] Four major new functions for acceleration and gravity and a few tweaks under the hood. New functions include: Constant Velocity, Free-Fall, N-Body Centre of Gravity (in 3D space) and Distance/Speed/Time.
These powerful functions allow you to calculate speed as a constant, as constant acceleration or as increasing acceleration, as well as determine the common centre of gravity of any number of astronomical or artificial space-born o… - Orbital Calculator 2.0.7 Releasedplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigOrbital Calculator 2.0.7 Released
This is a maintenance update. see Release Notes for details. - Pi Zero Planplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPi Zero Plan
I've been wondering what to do with my Raspberry Pi Zero, and didn't think I'd come up with an idea for a few months. Like most things, it's not necessarily a good idea to go looking for a use for it: wait until a use suggests itself. - Scatter Graphplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigScatter Graph
I've added a scatter graph to the Near Earth Object page, to show when objects are at closest approach and at what distance. - Site Softwareplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigSite Software
Some people have expressed an interest in what software I use for this site. It's built around DokuWiki with some extensions to make it work like a blog, keep it transparent (all the articles and entries are visible in the treeview menu) and to spruce things up - such as the auto-tooltip which displays the first part of a page when the user mouses over an internal link (this also works in the top-bar menu). Some extensions make administering the site easier, such as moving articl… - Info Postsplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigInfo Posts
Posts in this section are informational only, and usually draw attention to an update in another page. Most often, these pages will be removed when similar information is added. For example, an update to Orbital Calculator effectively becomes stale when a newer update occurs, so the old reference is removed. - Site Statisticsplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigSite Statistics
For the last year I've been using a plugin for my site that generates a statistics page, through which I can keep an eye on how well the site is doing. A couple of days ago, it stopped working. After a bit of analysis I discovered the data structures it was creating in memory had consumed too much of said memory and my hosting service had auto-assassinated it. - Info Reportplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigInfo Report
N.B. This page gets bumped every now and again when new info is added.
I've been pruning some of the stale articles and blog posts. If anything is broken, please let me know. - Updatesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigUpdates
The physical Martian clock... I have to come up with a better name for it than that. PiMars! Yup, I like that. The PiMars clock was up and running and displaying data at a crucial time. It was just a couple of hours before the end of the day at the InSight location, and as luck would have it, I had it display time at that place. - Mars Weather Data Flows Againplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigMars Weather Data Flows Again
It appears that after a long hiatus, Mars Weather data is flowing again. - Raw Weather Dataplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigRaw Weather Data
I have (at last) managed to get hold of all the Mars Weather data that's been missing from my dataset. In fact, I've got hold of so much (over 110Gb) that it's going to take some processing - it bears little resemblance to the data I currently fetch. I need a plan. - Weather Page Updateplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigWeather Page Update
Mon Aug 10, 2020
I've made some updates to the Mars Weather page.
* Bugfix to Wind direction chart to correctly show most common wind direction and sample count * Smoothed the max/min data lines in the Temperature over Time chart so anomolies don't distort the location of the lines
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