[20] - Life On Mars?

Inspiration

We were inspired by the Visions of the Future poster collection created by NASA which depicts Mars and other plants as tourist destinations in the future. We wanted to expand on this concept with a web app that depicts Mars as a tourist destination showing relevant information a traveler might expect to find.

What it does

We wanted to include information that a tourist to Mars would except to find. We used the NASA Mars weather API to collect weather information from Mars to show the forecast for the day including temperature, UV index, and air pressure. We also wanted to show rover images so we used the Mars Rover Photos API to collect images captured from the rover that day. Finally we also included a plot of the solar system to indicate where Mars is currently located relative to the other planets in our solar system.

How we built it

We leveraged public APIs offered by NASA to collect Mars weather data and collect rover photos. We used matplotlib and a solarsystem library to generate the graph of the solar system. Vue.js and flask were used to serve the web app.

What's next for Life on Mars

Life on Mars has lots of potential to be expanded by providing more information about Mars and surrounding planets. For example, we would like to display when the next Earth sighting would be and a include a rise set calendar.

Built With

• flask
• javascript
• nasa-api
• python
• vuejs