Exploring the outer Solar System with Django
summary
A web archive called OPUS aggregates remote sensing from Voyager Cassini Galileo New Horizons and Hubble and serves 1.2 million results with searchable filters, infinite-scroll galleries, and downloadable CSV and zip bundles it runs on Django with MySQL Apache memcache and jQuery (colorbox) the open JSON API returns images and data by URL researchers find phase-angle sequences and RGB sets, a 200 mile plume on Io appears in a New Horizons frame animation, and the system is actively used for science and film production.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43SETI Institute
- 2:13Opus
- 2:35Landing Page
- 4:12Jupiter
- 4:48Space Images
- 5:50Voyager 1 Jupiter
- 6:17Space Imaging Cameras
- 7:47Orbiting Cassini
- 8:18Cassini Image Animation
- 9:25Instrument Search
- 9:49Image Search
- 10:17Pluto and Jupiter
- 11:04Volcanoes
- 11:32Why did we build opus
- 11:47Collaborations
- 11:57Spacecraft
- 12:35NASA
- 12:49Scientists use it
- 13:04Phase angle
- 14:27E ring
- 14:47Phase angle search
- 15:09Saturn backlit images
- 15:29Earring
- 16:21Space Probe Color
- 17:04Saturns Rings
- 17:34Saturn Movie
- 18:00Opus API
- 18:35JSON endpoint
- 18:48JSON response
- 18:58Images response
- 19:10Images size medium
- 19:27JSON
- 19:51Django Community
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