Exploring the outer Solar System with Django

I'm a web developer at the Planetary Rings Node, part of the NASA Planetary Data System. Our small shop is devoted to archiving, cataloging, and distributing scientific data sets relevant to planetary ring systems. Our base of operations is the SETI Institute, where a research community is busy searching for and studying life in the universe. At the Rings Node I develop and maintain an outer planets space mission data search tool called OPUS which is built with Django. It lets users search data, browse images, and access its API via http. I'll demo OPUS and talk about the reasons we made it and our plans for its future, and we'll see some pretty pictures of the outer planets.

Talk for DjangoCon 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrq6EGfWmxY

Transcript

1. flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans
2. flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans
6. Uranus (Voyager 2) Jupiter (Galileo) Neptune (Voyager 2)
7. Outer Planets Unified Search
21. W H Y D I D W E D O T H I S ?
22. Space missions are enormous collaborations
25. flickr.com/photos/marcemarc
26. the-scientist.com
27. Phase Angle
30. planetary.org
31. NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute / Ian Regan
32. flickr.com/photos/valerieklavans
34. InSaturnsRings.com
35. O P E N A P I
36. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
37. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
38. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/data.json? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion
40. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
41. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
42. http://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/api/images/med.html? planet=Saturn&target=hyperion&instrumentid=COISS
47. Django. We
48. bit.ly/pdsopus github.com/basilleaf @basilleaf All images credit Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA, unless otherwise noted