Mars exploration via Maestro

Bob Hegwood · Post #1by **Bob Hegwood** » 19.06.2004, 18:43

Hi all...

Don't know if you know about this already, but I managed to run into a
a great freeware program from NASA\JPL which allows you to view the
data (and images, animations) from both Spirit and Opportunity. The update
files and main program are about 100MB in total, but the exploration of Mars
via the two rovers is a really cool educational experience. If interested, get
the Maestro package at the Maestro Home page which is HERE.

Take care, Bob

ElPelado · Post #2by **ElPelado** » 20.06.2004, 09:43

I have it.
You forgot to say that you need a very good machine to run that. I have a good one, but its not enough for maestro. It takes hours to load some pictures or some other things...

Bob Hegwood · Post #3by **Bob Hegwood** » 20.06.2004, 17:10

ElPelado wrote:You forgot to say that you need a very good machine to run that.

Oops...

Sorry, but I thought almost *everyone* here had a better machine than mine.
I have no graphics card, and only 256 MB of RAM. I thought if it would run on
my machine, it would run on anyone's. Never even occuured to me to think about
that part of it. I simply downloaded the entire package - with all of the updates -
and it runs fine at this end. It can be a bit slow at times, but the information
is incredible.

Thanks, Bob

ElPelado · Post #4by **ElPelado** » 20.06.2004, 19:57

The problem is the RAM I think. In my machine it runs, but sometimes very slowly and then I have to close it...
Oh, and I have a pentium 4 with WinXP and just 128Mb of RAM, so thats the problem...

Post #5by **selden** » 20.06.2004, 20:25

ElPelado,

XP needs almost all of that 128MB just for itself.
Upgrading to 256MB will make an amazing difference for you.

Adirondack · Post #6by **Adirondack** » 20.06.2004, 20:26

Well guys,

I checked out Maestro a few weeks ago.

Even with 256 MB RAM it doesn't work very fine... :cry:

ElPelado · Post #7by **ElPelado** » 21.06.2004, 08:51

selden wrote:ElPelado,

XP needs almost all of that 128MB just for itself.
Upgrading to 256MB will make an amazing difference for you.

I know that Selden

The big problem here is that I have a special kind of ram that was in test when I bought the computer: in normal ram you have a chip of 32Mb for example. In my kind of ram instead of one chip its 2, but its not that each one is 16Mb. So I have the 4 slots with 4 chips(64+64) so if i want to change i need to change all the 4, and thats very expensive...