Mars Rover API 🚀

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What?

Visualizes the NASA Mars Rover API in a little webservice.

Discover the NASA images from the mars explorations. You can choose...

• one of three different mars rovers
  • Curiosity
  • Opportunity
  • Spirit
• multiple different cameras, e.g.
  • Navigation Camera
  • Panoramic Camera
  • Front Hazard Avoidance Camera
  • ...
• a specific day (sol = mars days) since the mars landing

Technology Stack

• Maven for the project dependency management.
• Spring Boot for the back-end and communication to the NASA API.
• Thymeleaf to create the HTML templates via Java on the server-side.
• Bootstrap for a fancy look.
• Heroku for automatic continuous deployment, triggered by repo changes here on GitHub.

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Demo

Try it out 🌎

ℹ Application might be in idle mode when not used for some time, i.e. visiting the page for the first the might take some seconds.

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Getting Started

• Download (git clone) the repository.
• Open application.yaml file and replace the API key either with your custom NASA API key or the DEMO_KEY, e.g.

    auth:
      api_key: DEMO_KEY
  

• mvn clean package
• mvn spring-boot:run
• Open http://localhost:8080/ in your browser
• Discover the images of different mars rovers