Introduction

Solar System Treks is a JPL web portal that provides NASA data from various planets, asteroids, and moons. This data is used by scientists, research partners, and the public, including students and teachers. The data includes satellite photography and 3D terrain models.  Collaborative visualization, especially in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), can be helpful in generating new insights, as a team of researchers or students can examine the data together and collectively generate and discuss new ideas and hypotheses. Additionally, with the need for remote work, remote learning, and social distancing due to COVID-19 precautions, remote collaboration has become increasingly important. 

Solar System Treks Web Portal

Solar System Treks Information

Objective

The goal for the 2021 - 2022 team was to migrate last year's project to a brand new framework. The frontend for the application was developed using Angular JS, which is a web development framework developed and maintained by Google. The backend is making use of a REST API framework called Jersey which is written in Java. One of the requirements is by end of the 2021 - 2022 year the project should be ready to deploy on JPL's servers.

Feature Set

Our sponsor's required us to implement the following features:

1. States:
   1. User's should be able to switch between states which might have data in them
   2. They should also be able to create new states
2. Rooms:
   1. User's should be able to create and join rooms for collaborative sessions
3. Tools:
   1. Users should have access to tools such as freehand drawing, multiline, and shape to create annotations
4. Waypoints:
   1. Users/Mission planners should be able to pin-point important coordinates
5. Fly to:
   1. Rather than using a mouse to pan the entire map, users can import latitude, longitudes as coordinates and the map will pan to that location

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Frontend Tech Stack

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Backend

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Deployment Environment

              

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The Team

Name	Github	Linkedin
Sean Chung	Github	Linkedin
Aldo Gil	Github	Linkedin
Tommy Lay	Github	Linkedin
Allen Marquez	Github	Linkedin
Tam Nguyen	Github	Linkedin
Alex Sahakian	Github	Linkedin
Andy Tsan	Github	Linkedin
Srivats Venkataraman	Github	Linkedin
Jian Wu	Github	Linkedin
Anna Yesayan	Github	Linkedin