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Idea #9540: Mars Weather available in Weather Applet

Written by marcbel the 5 Jun 08 at 19:44. Category: Education. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Phoenix Mars Mission from NASA created a Mars Weather Widget available for Windows and Mac:

http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/screen.php

But not for Linux. It would be nice having a extraterrestrial location in Weather Applet options and/or to adapt NASA's Widget to Ubuntu.

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Written by marcbel the 5 Jun 08 at 19:44.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 19:54
Yeah, now when it is summer and vacation time I have been curious about the whether on Mars.

unimatrix wrote on the 5 Jun 08 at 22:36
Eldmannen, you are missing the point here.
Who cares how useful this is. It's very cool!
Linux users have been screwed yet again

marcbel wrote on the 7 Jun 08 at 08:58
Eldmannen, category for the proposal is "Education".

Ohb01 wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 04:52
I totally agree with this proposal.

The best workaround I've found so far is to add a Weather Report applet to one of the GNOME panels (right-click top or bottom panel > Add to Panel > Weather Report), for Location, select any available city on Earth (just as a placeholder, though I use MARSeille :-) and then in Preferences > General, Enable Radar Map and Use custom address for radar map, with the Address of a graphical version of the Mars weather report, e.g. http://150.135.111.162/weather/images/weather_image.png (image source page: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/marsweather/ ).

It would be great to have a more elegant and nicer-looking solution.

Perhaps add Mars > Phoenix Lander as a legitimate Location in the Weather Report applet? Just one option.

bvidinli wrote on the 4 Sep 08 at 12:59
why do you deal with completely useless things ?
i wonder is linux is not #1 because of this ?


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