mars-mcd-helper 0.1.1

Utilities for retrieving and processing data from the Mars Climate Database

mars-MCD-helper

Utilities for retrieving and processing data from the Mars Climate Database.

Currently nothing more than an interface to www-mars.lmd.jussie.fr. Note that this tool is not in any way affiliated with that excellent project. It is simply a requests-based scraper. Overuse or repetitive fetching could result in ratelimiting or banning from jussieu.fr.

Usage

from mars_mcd_helper import fetch_data, read_ascii_data
outf, imgf = fetch_data(outdir=".", get_img=True, ls=87.4)
sections = read_ascii_data(outf)
print("Image to compare at", imgf)

Requirements

mars-MCD-helper requires Python 3.7 or above.

To install Python 3.7, I recommend using pyenv.

# install pyenv
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv ~/.pyenv

# setup pyenv (you should also put these three lines in .bashrc or similar)
export PATH="${HOME}/.pyenv/bin:${PATH}"
export PYENV_ROOT="${HOME}/.pyenv"
eval "$(pyenv init -)"

# install Python 3.7
pyenv install 3.7.12

# make it available globally
pyenv global system 3.7.12

Installation

With pip:

python -m pip install mars-mcd-helper # or
python3.7 -m pip install mars-mcd-helper

With pipx:

python3.7 -m pip install --user pipx

pipx install --python python3.7 mars-mcd-helper