 I'd like to introduce our guest speaker. So Kevin Hussie is currently the manager of JPL's visualization technology applications and development group in the office of communications and education Only the government has Long titles like that, but Kevin has spent the majority of his 37 year career pioneering innovative tools and techniques to graphically represent virtually every type of data and abstract information used by NASA and Walt Disney feature animation. He did a lot of work with them. And so he's a rich history and in the movies and in animation he's consulted with the FBI with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and many many other places and so We're really excited to have him with us his focus is on creating 3d real-time interactive computer graphic systems And you're gonna get exposed to one of those this evening. So please welcome Kevin Hussie Hello everyone It it really is it is nice to be here with you It is always strange to do this because I am in my office at JPL It certainly appears I'm talking to myself, which I do but That's beside the point What I want to make sure of is that this presentation is geared toward you. I do enjoy presenting this material and I've the one main criticism I get when I do is I do it too quickly. I move the interactive too Quickly so that I lose people. So I will consider this a success If after I'm done You feel comfortable and are able to use NASA's eyes for your own purposes either to enjoy exploring the solar system or Using it as a tool to educate or to demonstrate to others All right, so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to I'm gonna pretend like you've never used eyes on the solar system and I'm going to just walk you through the process of How you'd use it how you go about it? So the first thing I'm gonna do is I think I'll share my screen Do not to look at my mug. There you go You're looking at my desktop. All right and What I'm gonna do first I'm gonna bring up a web browser because the most important website for us is eyes dot NASA Dot gov. Yeah, you can see here eyes dot NASA dot gov When you go to that website you will have the ability to do the following the most important button here is to Download the application to get started but and if you're on a Mac you download it Mac or Windows? Okay. We're working on a Linux build We're in fact. We're testing a Linux build, but right now it's Mac and Windows When you download and install this software You are going to get this icon on your desktop. So before I take you to the icon. I just want to show you that on the web page You'll have the ability to go directly into some of our applications where if you click this grand finale button It will take you to a module Inside of eyes on the solar system here are three modules. I'm going to demonstrate this evening eyes on the earth Solar system and exoplanets and then we have these special tours that will I'll show you we have eyes on the earth events In fact, there's one from today from the 17th We may take a look at that when we go to eyes on the earth And then we have other apps that are web apps DSN now, which is actually our most pop popular app That allows you to see the entire operations of the deep space now exactly where we're communicating to From our three locations around the globe Canberra, Australia, Goldstone, California and Madrid, Spain And then down here at the bottom you'll see site manager Kevin Hussie if you have email questions Please send me email. Either I will answer my producer or one of our programmers Okay, so let's assume that you successfully downloaded and installed NASA's eyes When you do you're going to get this icon and the process is basically you're downloading and installing a relatively small video game we build this application on top of the unity 3d game engine and So you say you download maybe a hundred meg But that hundred meg Opens the window to the data that we've put up on the Amazon cloud Which is about 275 gigabytes of data that you'll have access to we don't Put more we don't cash more than a gig and a half on your computer But we don't send you anything that you don't ask for right so again. This is a live demonstration I'm going to go ahead and double click on this icon and if I checked if you see me look to the right I've also have this running on my Mac I'm doing this on a PC laptop that my Mac laptop so I can kind of see the response time to make sure that you guys are Seeing what I'm what I'm wanting you to see and the lag right now looks very minimal. So it's this is encouraging So this is our splash screen that you get when you double click and you can go from here You can start eyes on the earth solar system exoplanets now I'm going to take you in the order that we created these and believe or not even here at JPL We started with eyes on the earth People don't do this don't know this but 33% of our budget at JPL is for earth science It's really important in fact I am a climatic geomorphologist by training and got hired at JPL as a grad student in 1979 to process Landsat data to digitize maps so We were asked to Find a way to demonstrate to the public or to show the public NASA's earth observing fleet so Here's eyes on the earth and whenever we we advise you to go full screen. I recommend it So I'm going to click the full screen button And now you have the earth I'm just going to click and drag and you can see you can spin the globe and these satellites traveling about Aren't just traveling willy-nilly. They are in fact the locations of those satellites At the time you see at the bottom left of the screen So for example, if I click the button here that says real time You're now looking at where these satellites are while we speak Okay, so I'm going to start with Satellite Let's look at SMAP soil moisture active passive And I'm going to what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on this and if you click again We will take you to the location that the satellite is In real time. So this is where SMAP is now Granted, this is not a live picture of the earth nor is it a Chase plane if you will for the satellite But it does show you that the SMAP is precisely in this location Traveling as fast as you see it and in the direction that you see it. Okay, so We do this with all of NASA's earth-observing fleet Again, you have control you can look at, you know Pretty much any direction What we do is we provide some things for the public because people don't realize how big or small These satellites are so over in the left-hand side. You can see we have a button that says compare size So let's go ahead and throw a scientist out there with With SMAP and you can see right away that that is a rather large satellite Yes, our scientist is not properly dressed for space She would definitely need a spacesuit Caltech legal wants me to tell you that When you go into space make sure you wear that spaces I tell folks that yes, this this would really hurt But not for long All right enough for her we can also go and compare to a school bus and this would be truly the magic school bus And I'm just gonna ignore that phone Just gonna ignore it. It's very hard to do and Okay, so here we do this I call these kind of the parlor tricks if you will for for eyes the real strength of eyes isn't with Comparing and looking where it is and be able to look at the models But it's about the data and at the top of the screen you can see where it says the vital signs of the planet So I'm gonna go ahead now and just show you some of these first. Let me go. I'll go home But by the way, these are in the proper height location Jason 3 is the highest satellite lowest would be the ISS All right Let's get to the meat of this and the meat of this are these data sets. I'm gonna start with let's look at carbon monoxide I'm gonna click it and now what you're seeing is you're seeing the entire carbon monoxide footprint for the earth on a three-day average So this is May 15th through the 17th We update this data every day and right now it looks pretty good What I'm gonna do before I do it. I want to note that Not only do we do a Visualization of the data where in this case the cooler the color indicates the lower Concentration level of carbon monoxide the warmer the color the higher, but if you look at this key at the bottom right and You roll your cursor over the screen. You'll see that we actually report the data values So here in India, we've got like a hundred and forty thirty seven forty eight parts per billion This is about as good as you're ever gonna see the world and I'll prove that by saying choose some dates Let's do a time series. So I'm gonna go back and grab the month of April in fact I'll go from April through today and Must submit these dates and I want you to watch what's going on here You can look at okay By the way carbon monoxide is something that is produced with the incomplete combustion of fossil fuel And there's nobody burning anything out here in the Pacific obviously now. Maybe a couple ships, but where we're getting action is from Asia right you've got a billion people here billion people here and a billion people in China Now when they pollute look where it goes comes across and it builds up Here, you know, we are big one. I wouldn't say happy one big dysfunctional family So we have to live with each other if you know what I mean But at least with this software we can actually see where the pollution is coming from and where it's going And I'm just gonna roll my cursor over some of these higher values So you're looking at numbers here That are in the three and four hundreds if I can get you to oh by the way I can pause the animation All right, you get the idea. So we do this. This is just carbon monoxide. We've got temperature The blue line is the zero degrees Celsius 32 degrees Fahrenheit line and you can do time series for temperature. So out here in Saudi Arabia I was there two weeks ago So the average daytime temperature there is 103 degrees from sun up to sundown 105 a little warm Whereas here in Southern California. We've been dealing with Temperatures in the 60s basically today didn't get out of 60 degrees So get the idea now. These are daily. These are updated every day. In fact, we update them like four times a day We also have data sets for Let me see. Let me show you. Oh carbon dioxide now carbon dioxide is interesting because if you look at the scale down here You can see that the reds and oranges are up in the four hundred range And many of you may remember that we did cross the average four hundred mark a year or two ago So it's a little red. All right, but what I like to show is We do have like besides just having the ability to to Look at values. We do put some historic data in so down here. You'll see that there's a Animation of carbon dioxide since 2002. I want you to note note the scale It's the same scale where blues or low values in the three seventies Reds or high values in the four hundreds watch what happens over the course of about 14 years Okay, things look pretty good. We're in February and I mean if we're in 2004 I'm gonna let this speak for itself and believe me I get a wide variety of guests at here at JPL and I show this and I show it not to depress them but just to say that we deal with data and You know, I show I do data visualization You can argue about why this is happening, but you cannot argue that it isn't happening It's just like You know, it's like I'm not thrilled when I get on the scale in the morning, but it's data Okay All right, so there's this animation. Let me show you a much a more. Let's say lighter animation So I was showing you an animation about carbon Dioxide I've shown you some monoxide under data sets You can look at a whole series of data animations and one of the one of the favorite ones We've done lately is our atmospheric rivers We had a very wonderful rainstorm in the January time frame watch this You can see the You can see this moisture coming from the tropics pumping up to and dumping on to California It was wet, but no one here was complaining because it really helped with our drought Now this animation was derived at the science visualization studio our partners at Goddard These guys do the best visualizations and this was the first one. We've ever just mapped on to the globe So we generate we get data from various sources and map them on to the globe Okay, so I'm hoping that you're writing down questions about eyes on the earth I could spend the entire hour going over stories from this. Oh, I did say that I was going to look at an event So let's say you're here. You're looking at good old us and You see up that the latest event is this volcano with ash So if you click this what we do is we give you geographic Context so we slowly move the courage to move you to that location. We put the image in and then we allow you to to read about it and We allow you to zoom in a bit to look at the ash from this Volcano, so we have an editor that's in our earth science department that looks for these stories And we add them into eyes so that every week we have one or two of these that are of interest Okay, so here's I could I jump in with a quick question here. Yes, please do so we had a couple of questions about carbon monoxide which we might David it looks like the answer those but Jeffrey asked can you change the scale? Between Fahrenheit and Celsius on this. I know a lot of educators in particular like to Try to you know teach the the Celsius scale So so the answer is yes up at the top right in and many of our apps We have a toolbox and here you can put city names on but if you look down here this little thrower switch to centigrade So there you go Right so the units now so instead of being a hundred and five it's at 40 degrees Okay, so that's how you can do it here and in eyes on the solar system. We allow it as well Okay, so any other what's the other question? We just had a couple questions about a Why is the most of the carbon monoxide up here in the northern hemisphere, which I think you've briefly touched on There's most of the people most of the people now if I go back to Both for carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide during the during the harvest season South America you will see massive fires when I showed you When I showed you I went back to just last month. Let me go back a little further Let me go back into let's go back to like October of last year So I'm going back to what I went to hit the year button. Sorry folks. So here's December 2016 Just go to October. So let's grab. Oh mid-September to the end of October Watch this through Halloween and you'll see that All right. Oh What year am I in? Okay, if there's no data we don't we can't show you the data, but you'll see that we had Issues I'm moving fast again. Sorry Africa and South America. These are typical hotspots because they do slash and burn agriculture the people there Cut down the rainforest and burn it to clear away for their crops Right. So anyway, so that answers where people are you're gonna see more or a lot of times There's forest fires. So remember when I showed you the event Yes, there's so much. I'm gonna go back to events if you look down under here. You see fires Right. Mm-hmm. So now I'm gonna say all right. Let's look at Here's fires and smoke in southern Chile Then I can go and look at the carbon monoxide for this period and you're gonna see a lot of carbon monoxide coming out of Chile during this time But so it's either natural or human fires are the most egregious or Coal-fired plants like you'll see in China and India. We are very good at cleaning our carbon We still put out the most co2, but we're very low in co Okay, it's to the incomplete combustion. You'll find see any other questions before I move on to eyes on the solar system We're good for now. Thank you So a couple ways you can get the eyes on the solar system back in the toolbox here You'll see this little looks like a little exit here. What says exit program to eyes main menu We come back always check for updates and you'll come back to the main menu now eyes on the solar system Simple versus advanced the simple version is for people over age 13 Actually, I can make that about 20. This is for older people who are afraid to push buttons on a computer Okay, this is for everybody else kids love the advanced version because they're not afraid to explore This was done for some sponsors who were intimidated by this interface Just saying that I have any sponsors online, you know, I love you. Okay Okay now I'm gonna click advanced So we did eyes first because we've got funding from the earth science director here to do earth first But my boss said hey, you know 66% of our funding comes from Solar system exploration. Can you please do the same thing? But instead of the earth do the whole solar system? Sure, sure Blaine. We could do that. Can you can you give me some money? Which they did? So now we recommend you go full screen. Can they go full screen? Now what you see here looks like a very mundane or normal view of our solar system looks like a textbook but what we've done is we've converted your mouse into a virtual camera that you can place anywhere inside or outside the solar system from 1950 to 2050 and I'm not exaggerating Okay, anywhere inside or outside from 1950 to 2050 so I'm gonna start by I'm just scrolling back my mouse wheel Right now. I'm gonna click and drag Okay And now what am I gonna do? So so the couple things are kind of interesting if you look down here under your speed and rate See this number 29 miles per hour. By the way, let me cover this right away under visual controls You want to go metric? There you go. There's kilometers per hour Okay, so it turns out our solar system drifts through the galaxy at about 29 miles an hour That's just 29 miles an hour is our base speed But when I click and drag what this number is is the camera Speed right now. We're locked on the Sun so the Sun's drifting at 29 miles an hour If I click and drag watch the speed so in order to get around from We're going fast. These are trillions of miles an hour. All right So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna double click on anything with a label in ice products is fair game So right now we have a 3d camera. It's an orbital camera. That's locked on the Sun It'd be awful boring if all you could do is zoom in and out at the Sun But like I said anything with a label we will shift your camera to orbit that feature so I'm gonna double click on Jupiter and We're gonna go to Jupiter And there's Jupiter Right, we'll flip it over so the red spots where it belongs in the southern hemisphere Then I'm gonna scroll back and I'm gonna scroll back until we find our friend Juno who is viewing Jupiter So this is where Juno is on May 17th at 626 54 p.m. Hey, that's right now Pacific time so These locations that you see for the earth for the solar system. These are as accurate as can be determined I use the same spice kernels that are navigator shoes We input those into the game engine and allow you to do this. I'm gonna click on Juno So now you're gonna be at the Juno spacecraft revolving at three revolutions a minute Looking back toward Jupiter. So if you were at Juno with a 60-degree field of view That's how big Jupiter would look to you and if you wanted to see what it looked like for real There's a button down here. It looks like a little camera If I click this button Then I turn off artificial lighting take off all the lines. Okay? Looks kind of cool. Um, I can let me just do this I'm gonna go ahead and bring up this little button here just brings up the bottom panel I'm gonna speed up time a little bit So Kevin as you're working through this I remember when Juno was doing its orbital insertion maneuvers and they were broadcasting This on I believe it was on NASA TV to see what the view was was that actually NASA eyes that was doing that That was NASA eyes. That was NASA eyes. So I'm gonna go back to real rate and shake off this So I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and take it out of this mode turn off my little camera and What you can do is I'm gonna if I zoom back Let's do this. I'm gonna scroll. I'm gonna scroll back And when you get a certain distance, I'm just scrolling back very quickly Let me go out of here to make make I'm gonna take a trip out to the Kuiper belt very quickly Oh and Kevin just a quick question of how you're zooming in and out using the scroll wheel on your mouse Scroll wheel on the mouse. All right. We don't have any we looks like we don't have a texture map for make make Which I could understand, but I want to go back to Jupiter here When you do you do have a And I'm not getting the there we go. See on the left-hand side these Jupiter's features So we added this for the for the orbit insertion so I can do I could turn on It's radiation field. This was done from a scientific model So there's the radiation field that surrounds Jupiter This is the Magnetosphere I'll add the magnetosphere your aurora North and south and Then of course there are rings. You can't see them very well from the ground In fact, you can't but you can see them when you're close and then Let me find Juno again. Let's go to Juno So I'm at May 18th. You can see that I've changed the date to May 18th So on May 18th. This will be a view and I shoot I lost all my I've lost my Kutrimals if you will Sorry about that, but anyway, this is the view you get on May 18th now here This is like this is a camera view. It turns everything off, but you can do the following under visual controls you can You can go ahead and turn off orbit lines for labels Spacecraft trails or in some place we show view frustums or view lines So I turned all off and you can turn them all back on or off We allowed it to select what spacecraft you show whether you want. Let's turn on the minor moons for Jupiter So there'll be more moons will show up here as I scroll back now besides scrolling back with the scroll wheel You can grab this little jog wheel and pull it back Why you're why you're doing that and so Chaos how if they don't have a mouse with the scroll wheel, how can they zoom if they just have a mouse pad There's two ways to do it down here on the control see visual controls right here. There's this little What scroll wheel it says move in and out. So as I've moved this up I move in Or I move it down. I move back. So there's one way to do it. Okay, or the scroll wheel like I'm doing now um Or The other way I thought of a third way it escaped me now Oh duh on your keyboard your arrow keys in and out or left and right. Okay, plus the Gaming keys your A. S. You know WX keys those will work as well Right So that was a great question. Thank you So met Juno Okay, so There's a lot of power here and when I say this I'm not exaggerating I literally could be here for a day and never show you the same thing twice because I'm just like messing around a little bit with time So let me show you the way Cassini is really really hot right now, right? We're gonna be sending it into the into the atmosphere on the 15th of September Let me show you there's a couple ways to get to Cassini one is you can move back Like I'm doing now go to Saturn find Cassini Right like this like Cassini Or What you can do, let's say that we're not there I'm gonna go I'm gonna go home I've got all minor moons turned on you see that's crazy there. Let me let me turn off my minor moons It's just a rendering headache for this Just go back to the major moons and I'm gonna say all right gonna go home and I want a shortcut to get to Cassini So under destination tab, I'm clicking the top bar of the destination tab And I see I can go to destinations in the solar system planets and moons dwarfs asteroids comments So I'm gonna click on spacecraft and then there's a lot of missions in here So we're gonna look at outer planet missions Now I've got Cassini galley you've got all these missions for the outer planets And if I double click on Cassini I'll go directly to Cassini, but I'm not gonna do that. You see the little carrot little diamond that's next to it triangle When I click on that this indicates that we have little bookmarks of different events I'm gonna click on the Saturn arrival and watch what happens Traveling to Cassini will change your date and time are you okay with that when we change your date and time We warn you so I say, okay now look at the clock. So it's now June 30th 2004 there are the instrument view lines Okay, and this is the view you would have gotten on June 30th 2004 at 342 p.m Pacific time now I'm going to go under visual controls. I'm going to turn off my view lines don't need those right now and We're good there. So this is Cassini and I'm going to speed up time to about 10 minutes a second and You're going to watch it do make a couple neat maneuvers. It's going to turn so that the that the High gain and 10m blocking any potential particles that were in that ring plane And I'm going to follow it and you'll see when you see the engine come on That's exactly when the burn occurred. I'm going to scroll back and You'll watch it do its burn to slow it down So it would be captured into Saturn's orbit and then oh I've got my hands off every motion You see Cassini making during this entire mission is Precisely what the spacecraft did Based on the reconstructed kernels from the spacecraft Okay, if you to the view turn the view lines on you'll see which instruments are pointing where Now you can do this for the entire mission So this is just you know, this is one location one place the other place is kind of fun Is let's look at the insular one of the insulators flybys So I'm going to take you to October 28th 2015 and this is real time that that was sped up 10 minutes a second This is one second per second see Cassini approaching Inceladus, I'm going to let it get close and I want you to look at I'm going to pause Now if you look at the surface of Enceladus, you see it looks a little fuzzy All right, I need to show you a visual control that I think you're going to appreciate Under visual controls We have a button. It's called high quality and it changes the texture maps that are placed on the planets From 4k excuse me from 2,000 pixels around the equator Excuse me from 4,000 pixels around the equator to 16 pick thousand pixels around the equator So I'm going to click high quality and watch that watch what happens to the surface of Enceladus. You see it get cleaner there. I hope you did Now I'm going to go back to real rate In fact, what I'm going to do I'm going to turn off All the lines are no lines in space, right? I'm going to turn on real rate and I'm going to let you watch this And if you were with Cassini on that day This is what you would have seen as a human. We don't change scale. We don't change size. You can zoom in and out on Cassini We don't allow you to change the trajectory. This is where it was I'm going to if you look the other direction check out this view That gorgeous. There's there's Mars. There's the earth. There's the Sun That's what you just seen And by the way those plumes coming out of the bottom those are modeled We do know that there are these They're not geysers per se, but they're they are plumes coming out of what we nicknamed the tiger stripes I'm now I'm going to double-click on the planet Soon on the moon and show you you see how these stripes are the plumes are lined up along these four stripes That's liquid water Right and as I zoom in I'm going to turn the light on the movie light Notice the color is that color reminiscent of like a glacier ice on the earth that bluish color when you compress water So one of the places this ice goes. There's no atmosphere it blowing out into space So what goes up must come down so you have these beautiful blue ice ridges and I'm going to scroll out here Looking for Hello, I have lost. How could I possibly lose Saturn? Okay, I'm going to double-click on Saturn. I Want you to look at see this ring right here that ring is partially composed of the ice coming out of Those quote tiger stripes from insolence Cassini taught us a lot of things about this system All right, so I'm going to go ahead turn my lines and such back on and I'm going to move on now. Oh Gosh, no, I'm not I got one more thing to show before I leave here Let's do it lost my train. Let me go back here and turn these back on it's hard to navigate without my lines All right So I've shown you that you can manipulate by just clicking and dragging You can change your date and time by just entering down to the 10th or the 100th of a second, you know, if I want to go to 2020 because Cassini will be gone So if I want to you know, I mean you can set the date and time to any time you want between, you know, 1950 2050 I can set my speed and rate either by sliding this Backwards and forwards in time or clicking picking a number out of the menu. I can change Well, I can change My visual I showed you video controls all right, what I want to do now though is Show you I showed you destination so you can like do bookmarks to jump to different places and in Destinations, but I haven't shown you tours and features. I'm going to show you Two features that I know this group will be interested in one is a feature that we wrote inside So a feature or a tour is Basically using the engine of eyes and putting a specialized even a more simplified interface about a particular subject And you notice the top one's Cassini. I'll get back to that. I want to show you the eclipse feature This is kind of fun. We whip this up in about a month You click feature and now we are loading a new interface and all of the data surrounding the Called the great American eclipse of 2017. I also have my night sky network postcard with my little Pinhole camera. I wanted to show that at the beginning. I forgot. Hey, thank you. Yeah, these are very cool But you could see that you see a bit button that says explore I'm going to go ahead and hit the explore button and what you're going to see now is a split screen where The left part of the screen is a telescopic view. Let's say a 1.5 degree view of the Sun But look right below. You see a time rate. I'm going to change this to one second per second So this is a real-time visualization of the eclipse From anywhere on the planet. Okay, so right now you can see there's a big flag at Kansas City but if you want to see it from Houston, I can click on Houston and at August 21st at 9 57 a.m. Pacific time. That's what you'd see in Houston in Vancouver it would look like that and New York City, it wouldn't even started yet Los Angeles, this is what we would see. Let's go back to New York. Okay, I can go ahead and I can either grab this time slider to move it So you'll be able to see from you know, oh look Maximum coverage in New York City is going to occur at 1142 a.m. Or what what's that 242 243 a.m. In New York This will go with your local time I can click on somewhere in Venezuela Okay, how about those guys they're gonna have about a 50% eclipse But theirs is at 1255 our time, right? If you want to get fancy you can say custom enter your own latitude and longitude and Then save it into into here Or if you want to see where the if you have any relatives along this line I'm gonna go ahead and say put a boundaries map on so if any relatives that live along this path You want to go visit them? I? am gonna be right here in Idaho Falls and We are gonna have a grand old time Get the idea how this works awesome. We just did this little module. It's rather instructive People you know, I demonstrate this all I live in they give me a place person from England You know what? I'm clicking on what all I can't see it, but if you just go across The Ireland Yes, there's not much of an eclipse all right hmm Get the idea of this okay, so this is a feature that's specifically about the eclipse We do have one by the way if you go to eyes on NASA to go and go to you click on the eclipse Little icon there. We have one that works in a web browser that works that I demonstrate on my iPhone iPad Android tablet That has more features than this if you click it It actually does a Google location look up and gives you the exact if you click anywhere on the map, and it'll tell you where you are We're starting to translate this from a game engine It requires a download and install into web GL so you can do all these things from the browser Our first module is this eclipse module for that. I'm not demonstrating that I'm going to pop back into eyes in the solar system. Oh That looks fun Back at the time clean that up. So under tours and features. I Showed you this one. This is a very simple feature Let me show you are to date the most complex feature and that's the up kiss You know the Cassini module this module gives you a complete history of the mission from shortly after separation to It's demise. All right. Now we've learned that some people we have audiences of various Interest levels and so if at one point we would take you into you know into a user interface that you didn't know what to do So some people were stymied. So we decided we were going to give people just two Buttons and only explain one. So if you look at it right now, I'm not touching anything but the programmer is Giving you highlights from the Cassini mission. So even if you don't touch anything, you get a little show, right? and Then this button down here at the right. That's our full screen button. So if you don't want to be full screen You don't have to be we always recommend full screen Well as soon as you hit explore now we open up a the world of Cassini and Honest to God, I could it would take me two hours to demonstrate this So I'm just going to give you the highlights. This is the home page that gives you access to these various major portions of the The app so there's the mission button. I'll click on the mission button Now this is all about the mission in other words I can look at the mission trajectories mission events mission years So or the grand finale Before I do that. I want to show you this timeline down here mean something if I click on it and slide it I Can slide this or go all the way back to Beginning of the mission. I want it. So I'm going to go back here and clicking now See these these are every one of the encounters with every one of the moons You can ride along with Cassini during its entire mission and watch what it did So I'm going to just click a simple mission trajectory Now this is not an animation We are rendering this in real time on the game engine in this shooting on the graphics engine in this laptop So this is the primary mission of course I can zoom in Here's I'm going to just draw them all. Let's just do them all So it's going to draw the primary then we're going to change the color for the equinox mission and then the solstice mission You'll see it. What's fun about it is it's kind of a work of art So as I scroll in the performance here if you're on your own machine, it's very very smooth I'm looking over at my Mac and seeing that's quite jumpy But you know I'll come in you'll see the proximal orbits inside. Look at these orbits here like But 1800 kilometers or miles off the surface of Saturn. This is where it ends. Okay So this is just you know back to the Cassini mission I Can say all the events. So here's a list of some highlights minutes The earth fly by first Venus fly by launch whatever you want. Okay, so that's the mission Clip or the mission module. Here's this the rings of the science of Saturn module So you can do hey, let's compare the size of Saturn with other features. So there's with the earth Let's compare with Come on earth With its large neighbor Jupiter, how do they compare in size then if I rotate I can click on Jupiter and Saturn You'll see that they they move in concert. So if I scale one up the other scale So they'll always be in scale with each other So let's go to let's compare it with Mars Get the idea. All right. So this is a compare size if I go back to if I leave the compare size mode go back to The science of Saturn I can look at the interior. We do a little cut away and it's in 3d as well look around If you want to read more on these things, there's a little read more Okay I'm going faster because I do want to get to exoplanets and give you a little time to talk about this show its magnetosphere Here's a whole section on the rings Saturn Where you can look at the different kinds of the different you look at Saturn's rings through different filters You can this is just a visual with its moons. Here's enhanced Hands view with all the rings. There's what you get in the near infrared ultraviolet This is what Huygens. So this is Pioneer the best we can see from Pioneer 1979 Look right here's the view from Huygens in 1659 Then a little schematic diagram All right, we put a lot of time into this one Cassini gave us some extra money to do this so we get it Now the moons of Saturn is awesome. So let's say you want to do Titan and say it's a So here's Titan It's about Titan. You can say um Hey images tight minutes, you know what? I'm gonna go back to Moonser say I'm looking for moon flybys. I'm sorry. So moon flybys There's 127 Titan flybys every one of them here's done and so does the only every fly by so let's just pick We'll pick a Titan fly by I Probably should I'm just gonna grab at the last one and Watch it. Okay, so they're doing some Work there you're gonna see it do some more the instruments, but any one of these Doing some more radar work. Oh by the way if you want you can turn on You turn off the atmosphere Show radar map Yeah, let me show you here. Let's do some radar work there And that those motions are what it did So you get the idea you can do that for any of the Any of the flybys that's the moons. This is the grand finale final transmission We're working on we're gonna redo this watch this this vector coming out That's traveling that TS is Matt moving at the speed of light by the way It's a three-hour broadcast. Did I say three hour? Yeah Takes 80 minutes to get to the earth All right, but you're gonna be able to watch the final transmission from Cassini back to earth from several locations along this here Oh Here you go check this out Cassini images We're making this larger, but what we did here is you see the image on the right? This is an actual image from our photo journal. This is a representation from Cassini This is not a picture. So I'm gonna pick Let's pick This image here So there's where Cassini was now we're zooming in. This is the kiss. This is the eyes view This is reality Right, so if you want to see where Cassini was you click Cassini view That's where Cassini was when it took that picture and the field of view You want to see the camera view? Come in we did this for several images. We've got Here your choices of things you can look at see if I find a cool in here some rings all lined up there's some spacecraft This is cool, and we did this just by taking the same time the image was done again, that's a reproduction in the eyes You can do this yourself just by going to this time and then you know looking out the Looking we did them for you. Okay. I got to leave this I could be here a long time So I'm going to go ahead any questions before I go here because I got a kind of hurry All right, let's go back to eyes We'll just give a quick time check here. We've got David I need a couple minutes at the end and so we have probably about seven or eight minutes for you All right, so let me do this. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna escape out I'm gonna close this window and you go back. I'm gonna restart Check it for it. We always phone home. We start this now. I'm gonna take you to eyes of next place now What's different about this? is This is a visualization of one Database it's the next side the NASA exoplanet science database. That's housed at Caltech Okay, and what we do is every night now when I start that you may hear something going on in the background I'm gonna go full screen and I don't know if you can hear it, but there's a there's some music playing There's going to be a narrator will start up here and the narrator Joe Pateski one of our astronomers Is reading this text to come in the box? I'm going to turn her off because as much as I enjoy Joe will distract me But this basically is a visualization of that database It's just one big database and we went in and every night we checked to see what the new planet count So there have been 3483 confirmed exoplanets Discovered around 25 97 stars as of about one o'clock in the morning this morning No earth like planets. I don't want to get into discussion what that means There's a nice fight going on about earth like earth size. I don't want to go there right now That'll take up the rest of our time, but I want you to look around and see that That there's one of the best examples. Whoops. I just accidentally clicked on a star I got to go up here and click on home again. Sorry one of the best examples of observational bias You'll ever see is looking at the Kepler code. I did it again Gotta be careful because if you click on one of these stars We fly you to that system and apply all the data about that system to our visualization. Okay So what you're looking at here is I'm going to scroll back. I'm scrolling back You're going to see where this is in the Milky Way So we've covered not very much Okay, um Scroll in there are many ways to slice and dice the state of this database I if I double click on the sun No, okay. I'm just going to scroll in There's um, you know, there's our solar system Okay, uh, I can go to any one of these. So if I just click on So here's uh, here's 16 light years away. It's got two planets. Now. We're going to fly out to that system We're going to look at it Okay You can see that one's really close going very fast. It's 28 weeks per second to slow that down And I can do things like I don't really like this system. I just picked one. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take you to uh Let's go back to the home Let's pick like a famous system. Right like we made it. We made a We had a press release about the trape system with the seven earth side planets If you watch that press release they actually used eyes to demonstrate some of the things they found So I'm going to click on this Take you to this system and then we can look at the system and There they are in relative to one another. Okay, and again if I Click on something like I'm going to pick the well, let's start with showing the habitable zone So where in this system will liquid water? Remain a liquid Will water remain a liquid year-round? It would be in that zone you say wow Look at kevin. There's three planets in the habitable zone Say how if this is the habitable zone, let's compare it to like our solar system Wait a minute mercury is all it way inside, but it's a different star type. This star is not as Hot as our star. So the habitable zone can be much closer Now every one of these has an artist concept one of our Robert hurt the great artist from caltech did our Planets on this visualization. So I'm going to go to the first one double click on it will take you to Trappist 1e It's tightly locked. So the ocean side's always facing the sun and the far side we think well He represented as a big ice Dome Let's go back out to uh, oh, let's compare size we can compare size with the earth We have a limited comparison here that or jupiter Okay, compare them there But you know if we want to visit how far away is this thing? So we have a button for that. How long to travel here? So with an outie doing 60 miles an hour, you would take 441 million years We're advising you try a different way to get there Let's try a jet clearly a jet traveling 600 miles an hour. It should cut that Way down. Okay, 44 million years. How about at the speed of light? No time at all I'll tell you one funny story that I got a guy was showing this To a group of kids and I was making this comment. Well, you know what? It's going to take a long time to get there and some little kid yells. I'm going to make it but you won't Gee that's nice kid, you know Probably right Nonetheless, I want to move on to show one more thing here. You can search by uh, let's say by type And you can say enter multiple selections and now let's look at all of the ones that have stars with multiple planets Click on stars multiple planets There are 572. How about those that have super earth? Down to 156 super earth that Are visible to the naked eye Only four Okay, you get the idea here. All right. All right. So this is eyes on exoplanets Uh eyes on the earth. What else can I show you? I feel like I'm letting you go back to home A couple ways to visualize So here we have these bright stars showing you where the Systems are that have exoplanets. I prefer to use little Icons that indicate the number of Stars in the system the color still tells you the system type Okay, there's the kepler field again um You can also do things like What's all of our eyes products? Are you allowed to look at things in 3d? Or here on the toolkit 3d So if you have glasses on let me go ahead and go to one of the uh Exoplanet missions. Let's look at Kepler So if you had a blue if you had anaglyph glasses, this would all be in 3d. It looks pretty cool right Uh, I am very aware of the time. I know I'm running out of time I guess the last thing I want to do before allowing you to ask answer questions is Please try these things the software is relatively easy to use if you have questions Feel free to write me We will get back to you as quickly as we can Um, and I would like to go I'm going to go back to uh eyes on the solar system and um I'm going to pause here now and Turn it back over to our moderator Who can moderate some questions or what would you like me to do? Okay, well, we got a couple of questions here kevin. That's fantastic I think about a lot of people in the chat window have been commenting about how very very cool Please tell me what to do at this point bro. Yeah, go ahead and start sharing So I can't hear you Which is not good Uh-oh. Oh, I can hear me david. Can you hear me? Oh, I know why oh done. Sorry I turned off my audio Oh, that one's a difference. Okay I'm sorry No, we're good. So you're you're stopped sharing the button should be up at the very top of the screen I just turned it. All right. There we go. Well, we had a lot of really good comments Everyone's saying how cool it is, but we do have a couple of questions um And one person asked joe ask is it possible to create mpeg or avi videos from the app Can they create their own user tours to? Use here and then to save them Okay, two of the most popular questions the first one is the way we have to do it I on a mac I use quick time and i'm able to to do movies using quick time where I can narrate them On a pc you can use other tools. I don't do those on a pc But we haven't built into the app yet a record capability It's been requested. We've just never done it because when we started this It's where do you store the data on the person's computer? Now that we're up on the cloud it might be easier But the answer is you can't in the app. I highly recommend the use of quick time It's free to everybody on a mac I wish I could answer for how my producer jason does it on a pc The other thing is as far as tours go or you can't yet pick Waypoints along the way But you can do bookmarks And go from bookmark to bookmark and on the right hand side and eyes You'll see what looks like little links in a chain You can click on that and it will give you a bookmark. It will remember the settings in eyes So that's the best answer I have at this point. Okay Here's another good question and I think I know the answer to this is because this is an app that you download and it runs on your computer and so Stephanie asks is it available for chromebooks? And I guess that you really Um, well, I'll let you answer that question. So only the the eclipse module that we built for The web so the answer is sorry. No, but we are converting these into web applications that will run on a chromebook We test our apps on a chromebook using web gl And they do work, but so far we only have parts of eyes on exoplanets and the eclipse module Okay, so here's another interesting question k. This is a you know might be a You know stellar cartography and so it's uh When you showed stars visible to the naked eye, there was a whole star field that looked like m13 or m92 How did you visually identify the four stars on the screen? Oh Okay, because when you roll over Any spot it will tell you the star name So if you roll over any of those little spots that show up A little tool tip will tell you what the star is the other thing too that I didn't show in all three of our apps There are you can put constellations up you can turn on constellations to give you a better perspective I hope I answered your question. I think the question has to do uh, um If If I might interpret what how I would interpret it is that you know You know to recognize the stars in the star field You probably use something like the the digital sky survey to be able to identify the actual stars that you were imaging Within the visualization. Is that correct? The hipparchus catalog. Okay, okay Okay, and we're only and we only use about 2000 stars But every star you see is in its correct relative location brightness and color What I didn't do it I like to is I fly from the earth out to a ryan's belt with the constellations turned on And you can actually see them warp and I turn back around and look at the uh sun. It's pretty cool So they all all in the correct place and you could I didn't show up There's a free fly button at the bottom that allows you to use your uh game controls And you literally can put that camera anywhere inside or outside the solar system period Okay, I'm you know, I've got two more here that I'm you know, we can't always get to every question But this one sounds really interesting. Brian asks In a solar system mode can a user input orbital elements for an object such as a new asteroid and then play with orbital Mechanics of that new object. I'm guessing that that means is an open source No, no, it's not but the new version we're writing for web gl will be open sourced I'm sorry. No, you can't do that Symbolism Well, maybe the future so well, no, we will in the new version. We will Okay, excellent And then let's make this the the last one which is a really great question And just kind of gives us a chance to reiterate what we talked about earlier Is the app available to the public at large? Can we uh use it at outreach events to inform or direct our public to download the app The answer is absolutely. We highly encourage it In fact, I didn't even mention this the answer is yes Use this in any way you want get screen captures use them This was I like to say that this was made This is no additional cost to us taxpayers. Okay So you may use it as you see fit if you do use it. We just credit, you know JPL and caltech, but if you don't no one's going to die All right We want people to use this please do We do have versions that we made specifically for museums and science centers That are what we call the kiosk versions Like instead of like in eyes on the earth You have 40 buttons you can choose the kiosk version get four choices 40 to four. Okay, but it's highly scripted Okay, great and david put the uh the link for the app in the chat window. It's just simply eyes Dot nasa.gov and it's got to be one of the simplest URLs that you could even possibly think of so So that's all for tonight You'll be able to find this webinar along with many others on the night sky network Website in the outreach resources section each webinars page also features additional resources and activities And the link to uh nasa eyes. So we'll post this presentation on the night sky network youtube channel in the next couple of days Kevin, I want to thank you very much for this. This is a fantastic one You know, we I love the tool And and I love the enthusiasm that you bring to this. That's that's just wonder it's infectious is what it is Thank you. I as you can tell I enjoy it. So yes, you do my pleasure brian