Midnight Planets
Free
1.4for iPhone, iPad and more
9.1
124 Ratings
Midnight Martian
Developer
15.7 MB
Size
Oct 3, 2014
Update Date
Reference
Category
4+
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About Midnight Planets
Midnight Planets lets you explore Mars as seen by the Mars Rovers Curiosity, Spirit and Opportunity. It lets you view almost every image returned by the rovers in panoramic context, and provides a number of options for viewing in 3D. The app is an ongoing project in visualizing other worlds, using image data from spacecraft exploring our solar system.
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What's New in the Latest Version 1.4
Last updated on Oct 3, 2014
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Updated to support full resolution on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
• Updated for iOS 8
• Minor enhancements
• Updated to support full resolution on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
• Updated for iOS 8
• Minor enhancements
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Version History
1.4
Oct 3, 2014
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Updated to support full resolution on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
• Updated for iOS 8
• Minor enhancements
• Updated to support full resolution on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
• Updated for iOS 8
• Minor enhancements
1.3.1
Jun 7, 2014
- Improved view options menu
- Updated app icon
- Updated app icon
1.3
Mar 27, 2014
This update is required to support a new filename format for Curiosity Mastcam, MAHLI and MARDI images. Previous versions of the app cannot display images with the new filename format in the panoramic view, so you will need this update in order to see them. Also, the data set for previous versions of the app will stop being updated at some point.
Other changes in this version:
- Some additional support for written content.
- iAd now only appears when viewing the home page in the web view.
- Adjusted brightness of calibrated MER Pancam images to better match background Navcam images.
- Bug fixes and minor improvements.
Other changes in this version:
- Some additional support for written content.
- iAd now only appears when viewing the home page in the web view.
- Adjusted brightness of calibrated MER Pancam images to better match background Navcam images.
- Bug fixes and minor improvements.
1.2.7
Jan 3, 2014
Experimenting with ad placement to get it off the main view.
1.2.6
Dec 5, 2013
Another fix for asynchronous loading.
1.2.5
Nov 26, 2013
Fixed a crash when adjusting scene brightness on iPhone.
1.2.4
Nov 19, 2013
Another fix for asynchronous metadata loading.
1.2.3
Nov 13, 2013
- Fixed an issue with metadata loading.
- Changed the app icon label on the home screen from "Midnight" to "M Planets".
- Another update will follow, with another fix for metadata loading.
- Changed the app icon label on the home screen from "Midnight" to "M Planets".
- Another update will follow, with another fix for metadata loading.
1.2.2
Nov 6, 2013
- Simplified app icon more in keeping with iOS 7.
- Put the Vision and Site options on the main level of the View Options menu to make it faster and easier to use.
- Removed full screen ads. Banner ads now appear for 35 seconds, then go away for a while.
- Reordered the toolbar icons on the iPad slightly.
- Bug fixes.
- Put the Vision and Site options on the main level of the View Options menu to make it faster and easier to use.
- Removed full screen ads. Banner ads now appear for 35 seconds, then go away for a while.
- Reordered the toolbar icons on the iPad slightly.
- Bug fixes.
1.2.1
Oct 17, 2013
- Re-ordered toolbar icons
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
1.2
Oct 4, 2013
- Support for iOS 7
- User interface improvements
- Bug fixes
- User interface improvements
- Bug fixes
1.1
Jun 21, 2013
- Support for MER-A Spirit.
- Support for calibrated, archival-quality images for Spirit and Opportunity (MER). These images are processed to optimize download time and storage requirements and hosted by Midnight Planets. They appear automatically in the app for archived sols that Midnight Planets has processed. For Opportunity, archived images are released after a few months' delay; for recent sols "raw" images are displayed. (Some archival data for Curiosity is available, but processing it is going to require additional effort.)
- Disabled auto-zoom on image selection. Image selection now works in a more standard, predictable way. Double-tap images to quickly zoom and center them.
- Added a scene brightness setting in view options.
- Important bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Updated app icon.
- For advanced users: there is now a 'missing images' option in the manual view settings for MER, which displays images which are not available but for which metadata exists. This option is not available for MSL, as the public does not have access to MSL metadata as such.
- The "Close Ad" button is now enabled after five seconds.
- Support for calibrated, archival-quality images for Spirit and Opportunity (MER). These images are processed to optimize download time and storage requirements and hosted by Midnight Planets. They appear automatically in the app for archived sols that Midnight Planets has processed. For Opportunity, archived images are released after a few months' delay; for recent sols "raw" images are displayed. (Some archival data for Curiosity is available, but processing it is going to require additional effort.)
- Disabled auto-zoom on image selection. Image selection now works in a more standard, predictable way. Double-tap images to quickly zoom and center them.
- Added a scene brightness setting in view options.
- Important bug fixes and performance improvements.
- Updated app icon.
- For advanced users: there is now a 'missing images' option in the manual view settings for MER, which displays images which are not available but for which metadata exists. This option is not available for MSL, as the public does not have access to MSL metadata as such.
- The "Close Ad" button is now enabled after five seconds.
1.0.2
May 19, 2013
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
1.0.1
Apr 29, 2013
Improvements for the first release version.
1.0
Mar 1, 2013
Midnight Planets FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Midnight Planets.
iPhone
Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
Midnight Planets supports English
