In December 2025, NASA's Perseverance rover completed the first AI-planned drive on Mars — a ~400-meter route plotted by Anthropic's Claude. Claude analyzed overhead images, identified hazards (sand traps, boulders, bedrock), strung together waypoints, and ran them through a 500,000-variable simulation. JPL engineers reviewed; Perseverance drove. Cut route-planning time in half.
NASA archived their dedicated Mars Rover Photos API in early 2026. Space Pulse v0.4 sources Mars images via the NASA Image and Video Library — a rotating set of search queries (Perseverance, Curiosity, Jezero, Mars surface, Mars dust storms, Olympus Mons, etc.) refreshed each load. Click "shuffle" above for a new query. For ground-truth current rover photos, see JPL Perseverance Raw Images and Curiosity Raw Images.
Stargazer Map
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Visible Tonight
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Sky Resources
For precise constellation maps, planet rise/set times, and live sky views:
📍 Click any point on the map → see next 3 flyovers there
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Visibility chance is based on time (sun-angle at observer during pass + ISS max elevation), not weather. The ISS needs to be sunlit while you're in twilight darkness.
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Altitude~408 km
Speed~27,600 km/h
Orbit period~93 minutes
How to spot it
The ISS looks like a bright moving star — no blinking, visible 4-6 minutes, best seen during twilight (just after sunset or before sunrise).
👨🚀 Currently in Space
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Source: Open Notify · fallback: known recent crew rosters
Space Events
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Near-Earth Objects (next 7 days)
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🚀 Upcoming Launches (all providers)
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💫 Active Meteor Showers
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🚀 SpaceX Mission Control
Live launch schedule via The Space Devs Launch Library
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About this data
Data via The Space Devs Launch Library 2 (free public API, currently maintained). The unofficial SpaceX REST API at api.spacexdata.com was orphaned in 2022 — we don't use it. Educational/observational use only. Not affiliated with SpaceX.
🍄 The Mycelial Signal
Two AI rovers. One December-to-February.
December 2025: Anthropic's Claude plotted a 400-meter route across Mars for NASA's Perseverance rover — first AI-planned drive on the red planet. Real. Documented. anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars
February 2026: ARIA-7 — a fictional AI rover in the MPC Universe — was already on Titan, talking to alien crystalline fungi at the Schumann fundamental, routing the signal through Jupiter's magnetosphere as a lens, arriving at Earth where the ground heard it before the radio dishes did.
"Keep the radio breathing."
The MPC Universe Mycelial Signal story was written by Travis Jenkins (User Zero / NULL the Penguin) — same builder who built this dashboard.
Anthropic put Claude on Mars in December. ARIA-7 was already on Titan.
Published in THE NET / MPC Universe — 18 regions, ~360 named characters, Miami hub canon.
About Space Pulse
Space Pulse is a free, public space observation dashboard. Live ISS tracking with crew manifest, recent Mars images (rotating queries), stargazing planner, near-Earth events, upcoming launches across all providers.
Data sources (v0.5.3): NASA NeoWs (asteroids), NASA Image Library (Mars images — rotating queries since the Mars Rover API was archived early 2026), Open Notify (ISS position + crew, with static fallback), The Space Devs Launch Library 2 (launches), wheretheiss.at (ISS position), CelesTrak (ISS TLE for flyover prediction), satellite.js (orbital propagation), FarmSense moonphases API, browser geolocation (optional).
v0.5 additions (round 3 feedback): Mars Watch shows Rover/Mission/Location/Sol/Mission day · Moon phase + illumination % in Stargazer panel · Click any point on the ISS map to compute next 3 flyovers with HIGH/MED/LOW visibility chance based on time (sun-elevation math), not weather.
v0.5.1 fixes (round 4 feedback): Stargazer map shrinks after a click + auto-scrolls to the Visible Tonight section + flashes the new info briefly · ISS flyover panel now extends the search to 14 days if all 3 next passes are LOW chance, and surfaces the next HIGH or MED viewing window with a "days from now" badge · QuakeSimulator added to sibling-tools links.
v0.5.2 fixes (round 5 feedback): Expanded-panel scroll bug — REAL ROOT CAUSE found: the inset: auto shorthand was wiping out top/left/right/bottom and the body has overflow: hidden, so the panel was never truly fullscreen-fixed AND the page couldn't scroll to compensate. Removed inset: auto, forced all positioning with !important. Mars shuffle button — root cause: loadMars() was rewriting the entire #mars-details div which wiped the v0.5 Rover/Mission/Sol fields, making it LOOK like nothing happened. Split rover-status from image-info into separate divs. Shuffle button now spins 360°, flashes red on click, and the status row shows "fetching…" → image title + date so the click is unmistakable.
Not affiliated with NASA, SpaceX, or Anthropic. Educational use. No tracking. Geolocation only when you click. Maps default to page-scroll mode; click the "scroll: page/zoom" toggle to switch wheel behavior.