Mars-Rover-Gif-Maker

This script will create a gif from a range of dates (sols) for a given rover.

mars_pics = []
#Change thse parameters
camera = 'fhaz'
sol_start = 550 
sol_end = 600
rover = 'curiosity'
verbose_output = 1 # 0 for off, or 1 for on


for i in range(sol_start,sol_end):
    mars_pics.append(get_images_from_mars_rover_apis(i,API_KEY,camera,verbose_output,rover))
print("Done with grabbing pics...")
print("flattening array")

mars_pics = flatten(mars_pics)

print("size of Mars Pics list: ",len(mars_pics))
input("Do you want to continue? Interrupt the Kernel if you don't")

print("starting image dump to disk (this may take a while...)")
counter = 0
for el in mars_pics:
    counter += 1
    urllib.request.urlretrieve(el, f'{counter}.png')
print("Done with saving...")


fp_in = r"your_input_dir(where images were saved)*.png"
fp_out = rf"your_output_dir!\{rover}_gif_{camera}.gif"
#https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/handbook/image-file-formats.html#gif


print("starting gif creation (this may also take a while...)")
img, *imgs = [Image.open(f) for f in sorted(glob.glob(fp_in))]
img.save(fp=fp_out, format='GIF', append_images=imgs,
    save_all=True, duration=200, loop=0)

print('Done!')