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NASA Releases Mars Data for Maestro
The Maestro Team writes "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released the first Mars data update for Maestro, containing images just received from the Spirit Mars rover. Maestro is the public version of the actual tool used by the mission scientists to operate the rover. You can download Maestro and the latest Mars images from the official Maestro site, and join the developers and other users in #maestro on irc.freenode.net."
http://torrent.andrewhitchcock.org/files/Maestro-U pdate01-Windows.exe.torrent
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Get your your bittorrent files here:
Maestro for Windows & Mars Dataset #1
Maestro for Linux & Mars Dataset #1
(tar -xzvf dataset immediately above your "JPL" directory)
Maestro for Solaris & Mars Dataset #1
(tar -xzvf dataset immediately above your "JPL" directory)
Maestro for Mac & Mars Dataset #1
(Requires Java3D)
Maestro User's Guide (pdf)
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We (the Maestro team) hope you all really enjoy Maestro. Don't forget to join us in our chat channel (#maestro in mars.telascience.org) and send us your comments at maestro (at) telascience (dot) org.
This is somewhat offtopic (apologies in advance), but I've heard that some museums / science centers are going to be building realistic Mars terrain models, and replica rovers are going to travel the country. Interactive exhibits are planned where visitors can control the replica as it moves across the fake Mars terrain. Download maestro now to practice!
So I'm guessing this public version of the tool used to operate the rover lacks some capabilities, like the ability to operate the rover?
Actually Science Activity Planner (the mission version of Maestro) is used to generate plans which are then turned into the actual sequences through various software packages and some human judgement calls. Even the full version cannot control the rover.
But yes, the public activity dictionary (which determines the structure of the plans) is significantly different from the mission version.
Cheers,
Justin Wick
Science Activity Planner Support Staff
Mars Exploration Rovers
Although the site is "conserving bandwidth", and didn't have as much info as I would like available right this second,
There is a secondary site at http://mars0.sdsc.edu/ which has a lot more info.
Check it out. It even has a Wiki about Maestro and MER.
Many Maestro and MER related questions are also being answered in #maestro on irc.freenode.net.
Cheers,
Justin Wick
Science Activity Planner / Maestro Support Staff
Mars Exploration Rovers
Actually, we *are* making steps towards open-sourcing Maestro.
Actually, I can tell you that the following facts are true: 1) Maestro and the corresponding mission software were developed almost entirely on workstations running Linux and other open source software 2) The official workstations that are running this software at JPL run Linux 3) Most of the testing and optimization was done on Linux, thus you can expect Maestro to run best on Linux 4) We distribute different installers just to make it easiest for people to get the correct versions of all the required components onto their systems (for example, with the exception of the OS X installer, I believe, all of the installers include a private JRE installation). The various installers are actually all automatically generated by scripts from the same codebase. Marsette Vona one of the SAP/Maestro developers (currently back at MIT)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/java3d andjavaadvancedimagingupdate.html
It doesn't specifically tell you, but if you try to fire up Maestro without Java3D, nothing happens.
As it is, this is a quality Java app -- reminds me of old *quality* Encarta multimedia footage (back in oh... 1998 or so). Just better. :-)
-Rob
Marriage doesn't have to suck!
http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=4233
This is a post about getting it to work on Xandros Linux, but people using other distros with newer versions of libstdc++ may have the same problem, so you may need to symbolically link the libstdc library on your unit to the version the software calls for as well.
The software is a PIG. Its a Java application and even on my 3.0Ghz HP graphics workstation with a Quadro4 graphics card, its slow and a major memory hog. Still, Its pretty cool.