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corincerami / mars-photo-api

A Rails API for photo data from NASA's Mars Rovers
https://api.nasa.gov/#MarsPhotos
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Filter by Camera #79

Closed freddyh closed 5 years ago

freddyh commented 5 years ago

The example in the README shows you can query by camera name and an earth date. Is it possible to query the rover photos by camera only?

corincerami commented 5 years ago

If you mean can you query by camera without supplying either an earth date or a sol, then no. The amount of data would be far too large, so some kind of date filter is required. If you want to know what dates have data for a particular camera you can request the manifest.

freddyh commented 5 years ago

but why not just page the results if the results are large?