Maestro (software) was a free program released by NASA to allow users to view photos and daily progress of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
It served as an activity planner for Mars that utilized a combination of 2D and 3D visuals to track the movement and missions of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004.
[2] With the landings of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers in 2004, the program was developed to view their mission progress in a simulated environment.
Data from the Spirit and Opportunity's landing site must be downloaded externally from the Maestro website and imported into the program.
[1] Java Eclipse provides scientists with a way to obtain results without being bound to the console when coding and the ability to share information easily.
[5] The user interface is similar to a web browser and reduces all tasks to basic mouse movements and clicks.
An azimuthal equidistant projection is created by the navigation and panoramic cameras, which compiles up to twenty separate pictures arranged in a circle.
The Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) can also take photos using an infrared spectrum to display heat maps of the rocks and soils.
The database tags each files with the Sol date, site number, camera position, acquisition time, and sequence ID.