Day 1: The Moon is rendering!!
Started Artemis Navigator today. The concept is a mission planning tool for the lunar surface missions that uses real data to score landing zones and generate a flight path based on that.
The goal is something that uses real LOLA terrain data, real JPL Horizons ephemeris, real NOAA weather probability to map a flight trajectory from launch to landing.
What I built today
Got the Three.js globe running with the actual NASA LRO color texture from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio. Real lunar surface detail at 1k resolution, procedural star field with 3000 points, directional sun lighting, slow rotation.
Tomorrow
Parsing the 13 NASA Artemis III candidate landing zones into the south pole map with real coordinates and terrain scores derived from LOLA slope data.
Data sources
- NASA JPL Horizons API - Earth/Moon ephemeris
- LRO LOLA terrain GeoTiffs - slope, elevation
- LROC WAC illumination maps - solar exposure per site
- LCROSS/LEND - confirmed ice deposit locations
- NOAA - Cape Canaveral launch weather probability
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