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corincerami / mars-photo-api

A Rails API for photo data from NASA's Mars Rovers
https://api.nasa.gov/#MarsPhotos
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duplicate rover information in API call #27

Closed open768 closed 7 years ago

open768 commented 8 years ago

I noticed that the api featured on the documentation https://mars-photos.herokuapp.com/api/v1/rovers/curiosity/photos?sol=1000 provides duplicate information about the rover for each photo row.

the following information is repeated

"rover":{"id":5,"name":"Curiosity","landing_date":"2012-08-06","max_sol":1205,"max_date":"2015-12-27","total_photos":230000,"cameras":[{"name":"FHAZ","full_name":"Front Hazard Avoidance Camera"},{"name":"NAVCAM","full_name":"Navigation Camera"},{"name":"MAST","full_name":"Mast Camera"},{"name":"CHEMCAM","full_name":"Chemistry and Camera Complex"},{"name":"MAHLI","full_name":"Mars Hand Lens Imager"},{"name":"MARDI","full_name":"Mars Descent Imager"},{"name":"RHAZ","full_name":"Rear Hazard Avoidance Camera"}]}},

corincerami commented 7 years ago

That's correct, that's because each photo record includes information about the rover to which it belongs. That's a feature and not a bug. Thanks for raising the issue though.