Digital Globes: New Tool Allows User to Create Layers Using Mars Global Surveyor Imagery & NASA’s Digital Globe, World Wind

Digital Globes: New Tool Allows User to Create World Wind Add-Ons Using for all Mars Global Surveyor images ever taken using the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) instrument

The script is a World Wind Layer generator, a lot like the script used to show the latest earthquake data, for example. In this case though you provide your own data to construct into a layer. This list can be in any form as long as it contains the alphanumeric MOC image identification numbers. If these are there (in a directory listing, for example) then the script can make a layer from them that will have markers correctly placed on Mars for each ID, and a description and link to the image in the Planetary Data System. Please note that this service is in development (v0.3 BETA).


This web page from the developer
has more info and some tools to help get you started.

Source: WorldWindCentral.com,

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