NASA Solar System tool
Posted: September 07, 2011, 09:02:31 AM
"Want to explore the solar system and follow NASA space missions in real time?
NASA is giving you the chance to through a new interactive Web-based tool called Eyes on the Solar System.
The space agency said that the tool combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft as they explore the cosmos.
"You are now free to move about the solar system," Blaine Baggett, a manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, said in a statement. “See what NASA's spacecraft see -- and where they are right now -- all without leaving your computer.”"...
Link to Los Angeles Times story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol ... gy+Blog%29
Link to NASA page to download tool:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/
NASA is giving you the chance to through a new interactive Web-based tool called Eyes on the Solar System.
The space agency said that the tool combines video game technology and NASA data to create an environment for users to ride along with agency spacecraft as they explore the cosmos.
"You are now free to move about the solar system," Blaine Baggett, a manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, said in a statement. “See what NASA's spacecraft see -- and where they are right now -- all without leaving your computer.”"...
Link to Los Angeles Times story:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol ... gy+Blog%29
Link to NASA page to download tool:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/