30 – Keeping Track of Curiosity (feat. Fred Calef)
WeMartians Podcast
English - September 19, 2017 12:08 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 29 – A Teenage Rover (feat. Mike Seibert)
Without GPS, keeping track of our Martian explorers is no easy task. Data management for the thousands of photos, especially their locations, is in fact a full time job. Fred Calef, JPL’s “Keeper of the Maps” joins Jake to talk all about how we build a base map for Curiosity to help scientists get the right context for their geologic studies.
Links
Fred’s Twitter Account (@cirquelar)
JPL’s Mars Site
The Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter dataset from USGS
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