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    "title" : "Your Trek to Vesta & Mars Starts Now |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Your Trek to Vesta \u0026 Mars Starts Now","summary" : "The NASA Open Innovation team is pleased to announce the availability of the APIs that power Mars Trek and Vesta Trek on api.nasa.gov. The APIs for Mars provide data from the Mars Express, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions with 21 different data products such as MOLA Altimetery Hillshade, Viking and THEMIS.","date" : "2016-04-01T13:02:23-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jason-duley" : "Jason Duley"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepath" :"news/2016/04/2016-04-01-your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/04/2016-04-01-your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/04/2016-04-01-your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now.md","slug" : "your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/04/01/your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eThe NASA Open Innovation team is pleased to announce the availability of the APIs that power \u003ca href=\"http://marstrek.jpl.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMars Trek\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://vestatrek.jpl.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eVesta Trek\u003c/a\u003e on \u003ca href=\"https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#trek\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eapi.nasa.gov\u003c/a\u003e. The APIs for Mars provide data from the Mars Express, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions with 21 different data products such as MOLA Altimetery Hillshade, Viking and THEMIS. There are also 6 data products from the Dawn mission to Vesta providing various views in True Color, Colorized and Color Hillshade to name a few.  More information on the Vesta data products can be found \u003ca href=\"http://vestatrek.jpl.nasa.gov/facts.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/04/600-x-305-openNASAgov-Trek-API-mosaics.original.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A mosaic of images from Mars Trek and Vesta Trek.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese imagery APIs for Mars and Vesta are provided compliments of \u003ca href=\"http://sservi.nasa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSSERVI\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"mailto:MarsTrek@jpl.nasa.gov\"\u003eJPL Trek Team\u003c/a\u003e and can be immediately used to build your own unique apps, in fact, we invite you to do so in this year’s \u003ca href=\"https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSpaceApps Challenge\u003c/a\u003e under the \u003ca href=\"https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/solar-system/open-world-generation-using-nasa-mars-and-vesta-data\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOpen World Generation challenge\u003c/a\u003e in the \u003ca href=\"https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/solar-system\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSolar System category\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeveraging these APIs require the use of a Web Map and Tile Service (WTMS) client. For more information please see the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wmts\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOpen GeoSpatial website\u003c/a\u003e.  To help you get started, we’ve included demos (view source) for each product and those can be found on \u003ca href=\"https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#trek\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eapi.nasa.gov\u003c/a\u003e by clicking on any of the Preview links included with the API documentation. \u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/04/600-x-467-openNASAgov-Trek-apps.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A composite of 2 screen captures of Trek apps.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe look forward to seeing what kind of creative apps and solutions can be built with these datasets!\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://open.nasa.gov/blog/\"\u003eopenNASA blog\u003c/a\u003e by Jason Duley, Open Data Program Manager.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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