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Spotlight on MINX MISR INteractive eXplorer V4.0 Version 4.0 of MINX is now available for MAC OS X, Windows and Linux. Click here for a full list of changes and new features. Version 3.0 is still available for users with lower resolution screens or older operating systems. MINX is an interactive application written in IDL and compiled into an IDL Virtual Machine (VM) file. It functions both as a general-purpose tool to visualize MISR data and as a specialized tool to analyze properties of smoke,... Read more...

Newly Hosted Applications NUMIT2.0 Code for estimating internal charging in dielectrics NUMIT2.0 is a 1-dimensional computer code for estimating internal charging in dielectrics. It is available in executable form, and runs on Windows. An example of an input file is included in the distribution. Sample results are also included. Read more... Hosting discipline: Spacecraft Design and Space Missions GNEIMO Generalized Newton-Euler Inverse Mass Operator In collaboration with Prof. Vaidehi's group at City of Hope, the DARTS spacecraft multibody dynamics engine has been adapted to develop the Generalized Newton-Euler Inverse Mass Operator (GNEIMO) software for the Molecular dynamics molecular dynamics simulation of large-scale molecular systems. GNEIMO is in use for the simulation and analysis of... Read more... Hosting discipline: Bioinformatics Grid2 A Program for Rapid Estimation of the Jovian Radiation Environment Grid2 is a program that utilizes the Galileo Interim Radiation Electron model 2 (GIRE2) Jovian radiation model to compute fluences and doses for Jupiter missions. While GIRE2 is an important improvement over the original GIRE radiation model, the GIRE2 model can take as long as a day or more to... Read more... Hosting discipline: Spacecraft Design and Space Missions MarsViewer Multi-mission application for viewing images and associated image products The Mars Image Viewer (MarsViewer) is a multi-platform application designed to aid in quality control, browsing, and analysis of original science product images (Experiment Data Records, or EDRs) and derived image data products (Reduced Data Records, or RDRs) returned by in-situ missions. The initial motivation behind the design was to... Read more... Hosting discipline: Visualization and Virtual Reality iCara A Human-Factors Usability Tool iCara is a basic usability testing tool designed for covert data recording of user interface activity within controlled laboratory-based usability research. As a local-PC installed program, iCara does not require remote server internet-based services to record user activity. In addition, iCara provides a means by which user activity data can... Read more... Hosting discipline: Psychometrics