Exploring Space with NASA APIs in Python

Beginner

10 Lessons

1h 30min

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16 Playgrounds

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Course Overview

Space has long captured our imaginations and is a large factor in many developer stories and interest in technology. This course will help you explore space using NASA’s public data archives. You’ll first set up an account to generate a unique API key. You’ll then walk through five different APIs. The Asteroid NeoWs API will help you retrieve data about near-earth asteroids. Turn your gaze from space back to Earth by using the EONET API to retrieve data regarding hazardous and the EPIC API to retrieve colo...Show More

What You'll Learn

Get introduced to NASA APIs.

Learn how to get information about near-Earth asteroids and earthly events.

Learn to fetch Mars rover images using the NASA APIs.

Learn to access NASA images and videos using the NASA APIs.

Look at how to integrate the NASA APIs in a Django application.

What You'll Learn

Get introduced to NASA APIs.

Course Content

Introduction

Introduction to the Course

Get Started with NASA APIs

Earth and Mars

Near-Earth Asteroids Hazardous Events Using the EONET API Observe Earth Using the EPIC API Mars Rover Photos

NASA APIs for Media Content

Featured Images Using APOD API NASA's Image and Video Library

API Integration in Django

Demo Application

Conclusion

Wrap Up

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