GrandTour
Description:GrandTour is Freeware program for Windows developed by John D. CallahanGRANDTOUR can simulate place as seen from the Voyager and Giotto spacecraft. In uniting, GRANDTOUR can generate scenes from arbitrary points in place or the Earth, with the spacecraft visible to the observer. The planet, moons, and rings of attentiveness (or comet, nucleus, and tail), stars, the sun, and the spacecraft are all accurately strained with wireframe representations. Hidden line murder is done for the body surfaces. The motions of the bodies themselves are well accurate, with errors no greater than 500 kilometers. The user has considerable direct over the time footstep, arable of prospect, etc., and many frames per second are typically generated. The program was originally developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory by John D. Callahan to second in the analysis of discipline and optical navigation statistics. In uniting, the program was filmed by the BBC as allotment of a NOVA documentary on the Voyager Uranus encounter, and by the Four Point Entertainment Company for a commercially available video on Halley's Comet. Program conveniently runs from any Windows / DOS. |
