What's new in Mars24 7.1.1
Jan 21, 2016
- Added rough site coordinates for ESA ExoMars 2016 (aka EDM or Schiaparelli) and ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars 2018 landers.
- Updated user's guide to indicate Mars InSight would not be launched in 2016.
- Landers and features may be marked on sunclock using optional colors via a right-click or option-click on landmark in the table.
- Added reset button to landmark table to restore default visibility and color settings.
- Added four projections to sunclock mapping choices.
- Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 1.8.2.
- (OS X) Replaced Quaqua filechooser for saving images with native file dialog called via JNI/libgiss.
New in Mars24 7.1.0 (Jan 21, 2016)
- Mars24 now requires Java 7 or 8.
- Further refactoring to match changes in various GISS Java library APIs.
- Preference for saved-image extension always uses last extension used.
- Substantial refactoring to implement internationalization.
- Added French localization.
- Replaced default MOLA/NGS sunclock map with higher resolution version.
- Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 1.7.3, allowing for less grainy night shadow and for addition of two-hemisphere orthographic map.
- Added June 2015 leap second.
- Ordering of clock views in time display may be changed via drag-and-drop.
- Use longitude and latitude for Viking and Pathfinder landing sites as given by Kuchynka et al. (2014).
- Changed notation for Viking landers on sunclock map from VIK# to VL# to match old mission notation.
- Added Viking Lander and Pathfinder missions to choices for mission clocks. See technical notes for explanations and caveats.
- Added preliminary Mars InSight landing site coordinates.
- Windows version now a single "universal" app which should run on both 32- and 64-bit Windows.
New in Mars24 7.0.1a (Aug 20, 2012)
- Updated MSL landing coordinates from target lon-lat to touchdown lon-lat. The difference between landing site LMST and the mission clock remains a few seconds, but in the opposite direction.
- Bug fix: Difference in decimal character caused localization problems in reading and saving preference values and in handling some input text field contents.
- Bug fix: Trapping of illegal input of latitude values missed some possible cases.
- Bug fix: (Mac only) Correct version number shown in finder Get Info window.
New in Mars24 6.0.3 (Aug 6, 2008)
- Mars Phoenix landing set to 234.24845�E 68.21878�N. Note that is about 1/4� east of planned landing site, and so adds an extra minute to difference between PHX mission time and Local Mean Solar Time (LMST) at landing site.
- Inserted leap second to be added to UTC on morning of Jan. 1, 2009, into time calculation algorithm.
- Mars Phoenix panorama image replaced with full-color image released by Phoenix project on July 31.
- Some tweaks to control interface appearance, most notably to sunclock landmarks table.
New in Mars24 6.0.2 (Jun 3, 2008)
- Bugfix: CPU performance degraded when certain components displayed due to too-frequent repaint calls.
- Bugfix: Panorama graphic display not initialized with all pertinent user prefs.
- Panorama graphic display of Phoenix landing site uses first panorama photo from landing site.
- Improved calculation of "best" font sizes in display read-outs.
New in Mars24 6.0.1 (May 23, 2008)
- Belatedly informed that although landing site location was changed a month before landing, specification of Mars Phoenix Sol 0 epoch (i.e., time at which mission clock starts) was kept at time matching previously planned site. This makes about a two and a half minute difference in PHX time.
- Bugfix: Initialization of panorama panel crashed application under some Java look-n-feel implementations (e.g., on Linux/GTK).