NASA JPL's Fred Calef "The Keeper of the Maps" joins Jake to talk about cartography on Mars and how the agency keeps track of its rovers.

Without GPS, keeping track of our Martian explorers is no easy task. Data management for the thousands of photos, especially their locations, is in fact a full time job. Fred Calef, JPL’s “Keeper of the Maps” joins Jake to talk all about how we build a base map for Curiosity to help scientists get the right context for their geologic studies.

Links

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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cirquelar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fred’s Twitter Account (@cirquelar)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JPL’s Mars Site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/GlobalSurveyor/MOLA/Mars_MGS_MOLA_DEM_mosaic_global_463m" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter dataset from USGS</a></li>
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WeMartians music is “RetroFuture”, “Electrodoodle” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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30 – Keeping Track of Curiosity (feat. Fred Calef)

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