Space Apps Challenge: Sol: The world’s First Interplanetary Weather App

Sol is the world’s first interplanetary weather app. The mobile and tablet application integrates weather data from the Curiosity rover on Mars with weather data from here on Earth. The project aims to provide users with a sleek, visually appealing weather app that also incorporates information about the conditions and temperatures on Mars.

Also, a second companion app was created to augment the Sol experience. The augmented reality application offers two scenes for users to experience on Mars. The first scene allows users to a control a 3D version of the Curiosity rover as it rolls across the planet and through weather events, like a dust storm. In this scene, facts about Mars and weather on the planet appear as the rover moves around. The second scene is a 3D version of Mars that allows users to spin the planet around and read facts about the planet.
Furthermore, all of the apps were driven by a custom built API that integrated data from Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA) and the Planetary Data System into a format that was developer friendly, open-sourced and readily available.

View more at http://solweather.com or http://marsweather.ingenology.com