How to Play with Deep Space Data

Data and imagery from deep space probes is abundant on the web. I’ll talk about ways you can find space mission data to use in your personal web or hardware projects and show some of the things I’ve made and worked on with space mission data.

40 minute talk at the Dent:Space Maker Stage, September 2016

Transcript

1. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 How to Play with Deep Space Data
2. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 How to Play with Deep Space Data
3. Cosmic Journey by Sean McNaughton, Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics, Matthew Twombly and Jane Vessels, NGM staff, Amanda Hobbs.
4. Space missions are enormous collaborations
6. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
7. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
10. All images credit Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA, unless otherwise noted
11. Uranus (Voyager 2) Jupiter (Galileo) Neptune (Voyager 2)
12. OPUS
13. Outer Planets Unified Search
22. Greg Pugh
28. planetary.org
29. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute / Ian Regan
30. flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans
32. InSaturnsRings.com
34. http://stockrt.github.io/p/emulating-a-browser-in-python-with-mechanize/
35. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
36. O P E N A P I
37. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
38. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
39. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
41. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
42. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
43. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
67. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
68. sometimes there’s an undocumented api
76. Live HTTP Headers
80. xml.dom.minidom xmltodict
85. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data:
86. Beautiful Soup “You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get some data out of it. Beautiful Soup is here to help” Since 2004, it's been saving programmers hours or days of work on quick-turnaround screen scraping projects.
98. github.com/basilleaf/marsfromspace
100. APIs Web Scraping Search Tools NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Image - Image ID PIA12708 Finding Space Mission Data: Resources
103. planetary.org/blogs
105. basilleaf.github.io @Basilleaf All images credit Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA, unless otherwise noted Lisa Ballard