Midnight Planets Reviews

As a student of astronomy and physics, also working with jpl I never could find a website that would allow me to skim through all the photos curiosity had taken. It's almost as if nasa cherry picked the photo's they wanted me to see, rather than share the experience of actually being there. MidnightPlanets finally takes me there. Kind of sad, but as new horizons heads for Pluto, I wish the photos would update like MidnightPlanets. Because I just know they are going to horde every photo until the make a press release of their finest images getting there.

If you enjoy closely studying surface images of Mars this is by far the best tool I’ve used. It lists the images by both location and sol but also will lay the photos out in a mosaic for each site with 360* of pan. This makes it possible to follow terrain and rock structures instantly into the site’s adjacent images. In addition its easy to follow the rovers path through each successive location on screen. Moving forward or back is done by clicking on screen markers in the image. Easy peasy.

This is my go to app for a walk on Mars.

MidnightPlanets is absolutely the best way to view the photos being taken by the Mars rovers. It does a great job of placing the images into 3D virtual reality where one can move forward and backward daily in time to see what Curiosity Opportunity have seen while controlling which of the numerous cameras are being used.

MidnightPlanets was fantastic, but it started showing only a single picture for each site. It was showing only one picture even when I selected sites with hundreds of pictures. Once I fixed this by switching between different filters. That apparently kicked it back into working mode. But a few days later it stopped working again. Clearing cached data didn’t help.

I also suggest the developers add something on the Sites page reminding the user of his chosen filter and its effect. There is lots of room on the Sites page under each site to add more information.

As one who grew up with Asimov and Clarke and Heinlein, with Sputnik and Explorer 1 and tracking Echo 1 & 2 by eye in my granddad's back yard and Tiros and Mariner and all the other probes and lunar landings and Skylab and Mir and the shuttle and ISS and Hubble and our other big eyes on the sky and now these landers and eyes on Mars....To be able see Mars, SEE it, like this, is just the best. You kids just can't imagine. Onward! Upward! Ad Astra Per Ardua!

Good to be able to have an interface like this to view Mars in 3D. The only thing MidnightPlanets is missing is Google cardboard support. If it had that it would really create the most immersive experience possible.

This is better than anything we even have access to on the Curiosity team for going through images along the traverse. Highly recommended!!!

Midnight planets is extremely beautiful and informative. Can do some close up visual geological surveys of the loads of hi-res images stitched together mosaic style from location to location.

You've given me something I've always dreamt of. To be able to walk on another planet. Thank you so very much for your hard work

The panoramic view of mars and stitching of images is amazing! You get a beautiful immersive view of Mars. Navigating through the path is so cool it's just like Google Maps! Love it.

As of October 2019, MidnightPlanets is no longer adding new Curiosity images. This was my go-to Mars App for more than a decade. It will be sorely missed. You had a great run. Thanks!

It's like you are riding on Curosity. I've used it for a month now. Absolutely fantastic. Use with Dr. Phil Stooke's maps. Join the ride (on Opportunity also).

MidnightPlanets is what science apps should be: responsive, easy to use, current and fascinating. Thanks so much!

It’s not working it was working but after the update it not working

If you have a curiosity about Mars, this is MidnightPlanets . With a little practice, very easy to navigate.

How more cool could it be than to view another planet close up?

This and the other Mars app are amazing and captivating one day I will be the leader of a space tourism company and I will use MidnightPlanets

The stereogram images with some goggles (poppy 3D or cardboard) make it seem like you are standing on Mars, so cool!

All that can be said is, amazing amazing amazing.
Thank you developers for bringing this to the masses.
It’s a smooth running app that allows anyone to walk
On Mars, with a little help from Curiosity ;D
Only suggestion would be a spot to view the panoramas that have been assembled by NASA.
Love it!

It's a great app helped a lot to find what I was looking so easy