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🌜 Moon Read Me

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Concept

Issues

From earth, we 'see' the moon as a flat static one-sided disk. Yet we know it is a 3D orb with a surface full of complexity and changes.

The tools to explore and discover things were once literally rocket science. Yet we know that the data is accessible and and the development tools easier than ever.

Mission

• To provide simple code that flies over the Moon in 3D and to see its craters and rills in detail

• To show the usually hidden backside of the moon as easily as the front side

• To proved software examples that only require a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript in order to get going and 'make it your own'

• To demonstrate that all this is possible in an environment that allows you to fork, embellish, share and publish online that is free and open source

Vision

• To help you make some new discoveries about the Moon

Apps

Moon Voyager

• The Moon as a 3D sphere
  • You can rotate, zoom and move the sphere
• 1440 x 720 data points
• Displays placards with the names of 97 important Moon locations according to the-moon.wikispaces.com

Moon Voyager Read Me - Web Page
Moon Voyager Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover Mobile

• The Moon as a flat map - but in 3D
• Intended to be the lightest, fastest loading version of the flat map
  • But with the least detail

Moon Rover Mobile Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover Mobile Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover 64P

• 64 pixels per degree
• Good for touring the entire moon quite quickly
• This version was an early version in the current project
  • Will be updated in due course
  • Moon Rover 256P is a better tool for the moment

Moon Rover 64P Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover 64P Read Me - Source Code

Moon Rover 256P

• 256 pixels per degree ~4.25 billion points of data
• Great detail views of the moon

Moon Rover 256P Read Me - Web Page
Moon Rover 256P Read Me - Source Code

Moon Gazetteer

• Text files with lunar place names, location and other data
• Utilities for dealing with these files

Moon Gazetteer Read Me - Web Page
Moon Gazetteer Read Me - Source Code

Moon Utilities

• Node.js scripts for reading binary IMG heightmap files, creating PNG files and saving these to disk
• Scripts for viewing and testing the files

Moon Utilities Read Me - Web Page
Moon Utilities Read Me - Source Code

Copyright and License

Copyright © 2015 Jaanga authors

Jaanga software is available under the MIT License which states:

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

The software is provided 'as is', without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.

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