Mars viewer

Hello everyone,

In 2003, during mars' last apparition, I used a great web site which
was a version of mars viewer - only it was in colour with all surface
features displayed, all that was needed was the observing time.
Now Mars is back I have tried to find that web site again , and
i can't, all I can find is Mars viewer 2.0, which shows blank discs
http://pds-rings.seti.org/tools/viewer2_mar.html

Does anyone know if the other viewer is still going and what its
address is?


chris

Don't know about the viewer you mentioned but this one is as good as it
gets:

http://www.calsky.com/cs.cgi?&lang=en

Best

Andrea T.

On 2 Aug 2005 13:44:26 -0700, wrote:

Hello everyone,

In 2003, during mars' last apparition, I used a great web site which
was a version of mars viewer - only it was in colour with all surface
features displayed, all that was needed was the observing time.
Now Mars is back I have tried to find that web site again , and
i can't, all I can find is Mars viewer 2.0, which shows blank discs
http://pds-rings.seti.org/tools/viewer2_mar.html

Does anyone know if the other viewer is still going and what its
address is?

In 2003 a lot of people used Mars Previewer II, a freeware
application, to generate a view of the red planet for any date/time.
Apart from a rogue version with an embedded virus, the actual program
was very popular and accurate.

I've just dug out my old 2003 copy which works just fine. A quick
search on the net shows up a number of download sites, e.g.
http://astrotulsa.com/Resources/download.asp


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On 2 Aug 2005 13:44:26 -0700, wrote:

Hello everyone,

In 2003, during mars' last apparition, I used a great web site which
was a version of mars viewer - only it was in colour with all surface
features displayed, all that was needed was the observing time.
Now Mars is back I have tried to find that web site again , and
i can't, all I can find is Mars viewer 2.0, which shows blank discs
http://pds-rings.seti.org/tools/viewer2_mar.html

Does anyone know if the other viewer is still going and what its
address is?

In 2003 a lot of people used Mars Previewer II, a freeware
application, to generate a view of the red planet for any date/time.
Apart from a rogue version with an embedded virus, the actual program
was very popular and accurate.

I've just dug out my old 2003 copy which works just fine. A quick
search on the net shows up a number of download sites, e.g.
http://astrotulsa.com/Resources/download.asp


Does anyone know what happened to Leandro Rios, the author of that
program? He had a web site but it disappeared.
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