Mission to Mars

This project involves building a web application which explores information about planet Mars by scrapping data from serveral web sources and compiling the extracted data into a single web page for visualization.

Technology stack used in developing this web application is as follows:

• Flask — Microframework for Python
• Jinja 2 - Templating language for Python
• MongoDB - NoSQL Database
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap v3.3.7
• Python libraries
  • Pandas
  • Splinter
  • BeautifulSoup
  • Pymongo

Data sources:

• NASA Mars News (https://mars.nasa.gov/news/)
• JPL Mars Space Images - Featured Image (https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/?search=&category=Mars)
• Mars Weather (https://twitter.com/MarsWxReport)
• Mars Facts (http://space-facts.com/mars/)
• Mars Hemisperes Images (https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/results?q=hemisphere+enhanced&k1=target&v1=Mars)

Images from the final app

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