spice-tutorials

Hands-on tutorials for NASA/NAIF's SPICE toolkit in Python (SpiceyPy): slides, background primers and runnable Jupyter notebooks, using MAVEN as a worked example. Developed at LASP for the SPICE Book Club, a seven-session biweekly reading group.

Contents

Path	What
course-plan.qmd	Session-by-session syllabus, hosting and logistics
slides/	One Quarto (reveal.js) deck per session
primers/	Background reading the NAIF tutorials skip (coming)
notebooks/	Homework notebooks, runnable in Colab or Binder (coming)
kernels/	Meta-kernels; kernel files are downloaded, not committed

Build the site

pip install quarto-cli spiceypy numpy matplotlib jupyter
curl -o kernels/naif0012.tls \
  https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/generic_kernels/lsk/naif0012.tls
quarto preview            # live preview
quarto render             # full site into _site/

License

MIT. See LICENSE.