3-D Asteroid Viewer – ASU

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University – Online

CLASS

Copper Class (2021 – 2022)

STUDENT TEAM

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL GUIDANCE

Dr. Daniel Wenkert, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Dr. Doug Sandy, Lecturer, Engineering Academic & Student Affairs, ASU

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In preparation for arrival at the Psyche asteroid, teams are working to create a light, web browser-based application with the ability to rotate and zoom on an arbitrary-shaped body in a normal web browser and to indicate all the places on the model where data have been collected. Although we do not yet have data for Psyche, there is ample data, including shape models, for other main belt asteroids, which are being used in developing the viewer.

This work was created in partial fulfillment of Arizona State University Capstone Courses. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.asu.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.