I wanna make a map that shows the weather at various points on mars over time. Something that looks and feels like the “overview” weather maps, but obviously with less data points.
Like this:
There’s old historical data from missions like Phoenix lander, and much more recent (some still updating) data from missions like Insight, MSL/Curiosity and M2020/Perseverance. Ideally the landing events (and therefore new data events) would be highlighted on the map as it changes day to day and the data points would move slightly as the mobile sources (MSL/M2020) rove around.
MSL “live” data: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/weather/
Insight latest data (not gathering right now): https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/
M2020 “live” data: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/weather/
Maybe useful for old Phoenix data: https://atmos.nmsu.edu/data_and_services/atmospheres_data/phoenix/met.html
Maybe useful in general: https://atmos.nmsu.edu/data_and_services/atmospheres_data/MARS/mars_lander.html
All the data needs to be acquired, time correlated, location stamped, and then projected onto a map of the surface of mars.
Might be fun to read some papers on mars weather patterns and extrapolate what we can from that in other areas into something like a heatmap above, but starting with data points is probably enough work as it is.