Aisle 8No. 196 of 460
Splashery
Perseverance Rover
300,000 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Photoreal · Capture
Perseverance Rover
NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021 to look for signs of ancient life and to collect rock samples.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap Labels to read about its parts. Tap the rover for a hop.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 196 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 8, Photoreal
- Kind
- Capture
- Small parts
- 300,000
- Sound
- No
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC BY 4.0, MIT, BSD
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
About it
NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021 to look for signs of ancient life and to collect rock samples. This is a computer-made scene built from NASA's 3D models of the rover, drawn with splats.
Tap Labels (a button on the stage's right edge) and 22 numbered markers appear on its parts, from the wheels and the coring drill to the cameras, the antennas, and the sample tubes. Tap one to read about it while the view glides there; ‹ and › step through them. Tap the rover itself and it hops.
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Perseverance rover - Synthetic sceneMade by its author in Blender from NASA's 3D models and trained into splats. Converted to SOG with its spherical harmonics removed, turned upright, recentered and scaled; the ground cropped to a round patch around the rover, without Ingenuity and the sky; loose floaters removed; thinned to 1,000,000 splats. NASA's insignia and JPL's logo on the body painted over. | tmate | CC BY 4.0 |
Libraries
- MIT, BSD
- WebP codec (splat-transform, with libwebp)
