Pale Red Dot is an attempt at building a spatially aware 3D Mars surface viewer using MBSE methodology. The blog entries here document the engineering journey.
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #2 Three working Python scripts—NASA API access, PDS label parsing, coordinate transforms—sat in a folder. They worked. They had comments. And they were about to become a maintenance problem. The issue: standalone scripts capture what…
Pale Red Dot Dev Log #1 Translating a project vision into a structured description is harder than it looks. The ideas exist, but they’re tangled—technical ambitions mixed with unstated assumptions, emotional motivations sitting next to architectural decisions. For Pale Red…
Personal motivation When my child was little, we lived in a desert environment. We had gone camping in the desert many times and knew how the sand would feel and behave when it ran through our fingers, how mountains would…