HiRISE is multilingual
Thanks to our webmaster, and Google, HiRISE pages can now be translated from English to French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German or Arabic.
Here is a tip: once you have translated a page, all pages on the HiRISE website that you click through will be translated, too! There will be a link at the top of your browser to return to the original page. You can also hover over a sentence to see it in the original language, English.
Look for the little flag buttons on the right hand side of an observation page, under the link to Facebook.
We hope our international viewers benefit from this added feature.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:57 am
We should also note that the service is not intended as a “pure translation,” but rather to enable people to get the gist of a caption. Since it’s done by machine, some “translations” will be a bit more understandable than others.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Say, HiRISE, what ever happened to “The People’s Camera”? The 2002 McEwen et al. LPSC abstract on HiRISE says “User-friendly web tools will be available to submit observations requests and to view and analyze HiRISE images” This was interpreted by the world-at-large to mean that anyone in the general public as well as the science community could suggest HiRISE targets through a web site interface. The Eliason et al. 2002 LPSC abstract also talked about this capability. HiRISE has been taking data for more than 1 mars year. Where’s the “People’s Camera” part of this? Was that all a bunch of lies to get NASA to select your camera, or was it something real that you still intend to do?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Yes, not only is this still an intent, it is under active development. We are likewise, to say the least, chagrined that this promise has gone unfulfilled. There are a number of issues with the current targeting tool(s) used by the science team that prevent us from making it publicly available. Primarily, they revolve around complexity / usability issues, but there are also licensing, scalability and security concerns. This led to and effort which began late last year to create a simpler and entirely web-based targeting tool, developed in-house.
January 28th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Thanks! Looking forward to the day!
February 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Not Russian? Oops…