- Credit: ASU
If you want to keep a sharp eye on the red planet, consider a new iPhone application, or app. Mars can be delivered daily to this type of device.
Thanks to an Arizona State University’s (ASU) camera onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter — the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS – you can get an eye-full of features imaged on Mars.
The app comes courtesy of Kate Gordon-Bloomfield, a software developer and co-director at LittleCollie Ltd. in the United Kingdom. She’s also an ASU graduate with a passion for space exploration.
A multiband instrument, ASU’s THEMIS makes images of Mars at infrared and visible wavelengths. Its latest accomplishment is the completion of a global portrait of Mars at a resolution of 100 meters, that’s just 330 feet.
Besides being available through the iPhone, the THEMIS images of the day are accessible on the web, also providing links categorizing the Martian features by type.
Go to:
http://themis.asu.edu/image_of_the_day
Apps users note: The free iPhone app is yours through the iTunes website.
Go to:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mars-odyssey-themis-image/id371924669?mt=8
By LD/CSE