NASA Surface Data VR – The Mars Devils

INSTITUTION

Arizona State University (ASU)

CLASS

Iridium Class (2024 – 2025)

STUDENT TEAM

ACADEMIC GUIDANCE

Dr. Pranut Jain

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The PC-based Virtual Reality (PCVR) application developed in Unity using the High-Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) to deliver high-fidelity, immersive environments. It utilizes official NASA and Psyche mission data, including digital terrain models (DTMs) from Mars missions, which are transformed to heightmaps, imported and processed within Unity to create realistic 3D planetary landscapes.

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This work was created in partial fulfillment of the Arizona State University Capstone Course “SER 401”. The work is a result of the Psyche Student Collaborations component of NASA’s Psyche Mission (https://psyche.ssl.berkeley.edu). “Psyche: A Journey to a Metal World” [Contract number NNM16AA09C] is part of the NASA Discovery Program mission to solar system targets. Trade names and trademarks of ASU and NASA are used in this work for identification only. Their usage does not constitute an official endorsement, either expressed or implied, by Arizona State University or National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of ASU or NASA.