What's new in Mars24 8.2.2
Jun 26, 2021
- Noted landing of CNSA's Tianwen-1 project Zhurong rover. Lon-lat coordinates are per news articles and are only to within 0.d°. A mission clock is not yet included.
New in Mars24 8.2.1 (Mar 31, 2021)
- Landing time and lon-lat coordinates for Mars 2020 Perseverance are now official.
- Help pages updates and corrections.
- Code linting and minor optimizations.
New in Mars24 8.2.0 (Mar 11, 2021)
- Java 9 is required to run Mars24.
- The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed on Feb. 18. Landing site lon-lat coordinates updated to unofficial values.
- Added planned Tianwen-1 (formerly Huoxing-1) landing site coordinates based on a space.com article.
- Bugfix: Log file not receiving entries.
- Many help pages link updates, many due to gov't HTTP/HTTPS change.
- Library: Updated Apache pdfbox to v. 2.0.21.
- Library: Updated pdfbox-graphics to v. 0.29.
- Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 2.6.1.
- Code linting and minor optimizations.
New in Mars24 8.1.0 (May 17, 2020)
- Added planned NASA's Perseverance (aka, Mars 2020) landing site and mission clock.
- Added planned ESA/Roscosmos's ExoMars 2022 landing site. (Note: Mission previously listed as ExoMars 2020.)
- Library: Updated Apache pdfbox to v. 2.0.18.
- Library: Updated pdfbox-graphics to v. 0.23.
- Library: Updated slf4j to v. 1.7.30.
- Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 2.5.0.
- Bugfix: Logger exception if saving display image as PDF.
- Bugfix: Seeming app hang if saving display image as PS.
- Code de-linting and minor optimizations.
- (macOS) Notarized in order to pass new Gatekeeper security test.
New in Mars24 7.1.3 Build GAX2 (Jul 14, 2017)
- User's guide lander notes re-organized and information added about EDM Schiaparelli crash.
- Bugfix: Color topography map mentioned in credits page was not included in package as a sunclock map choice.
- Refactored window watcher and prefs saver timer tasks.
- Abbreviate clock description if too wide to fit in clock view.
- Bugfix: Drag re-order of clock elements did not work for some clock types.
- Added use of SLF4J logging libraries.
New in Mars24 7.1.2 (Jul 14, 2017)
- ExoMars 2018 has been postponed two years. Potential landing site removed from lists as it will probably be re-evaluated.
- Added December 31, 2016 leap second.
- Bugfix: (macOS) Crash at launch if JRE not found in expected location.
- Sunclock landmark list may be re-ordered by double-clicking on column headers.
New in Mars24 7.1.1 Build FCW4 (Mar 9, 2016)
- Added rough site coordinates for ESA ExoMars 2016 (aka EDM or Schiaparelli) and ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars 2018 landers.
- Updated user's guide to indicate Mars InSight would not be launched in 2016.
- Landers and features may be marked on sunclock using optional colors via a right-click or option-click on landmark in the table.
- Added reset button to landmark table to restore default visibility and color settings.
- Added four projections to sunclock mapping choices.
- Library: Updated GISSmap to v. 1.8.2.
- (OS X) Replaced Quaqua filechooser for saving images with native file dialog called via JNI/libgiss.
New in Mars24 7.0.1a (Jan 23, 2013)
- Updated MSL landing coordinates from target lon-lat to touchdown lon-lat. The difference between landing site LMST and the mission clock remains a few seconds, but in the opposite direction.
- Bugfix: Difference in decimal character caused localization problems in reading and saving preference values and in handling some input text field contents.
- Bugfix: Trapping of illegal input of latitude values missed some possible cases.
- Bugfix: (Mac only) Correct version number shown in finder Get Info window.