{"id":145861,"date":"2022-09-07T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasas-revamped-eyes-on-the-solar-system-lets-you-explore-space-in-your-browser"},"modified":"2022-09-07T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T22:25:56","slug":"nasas-revamped-eyes-on-the-solar-system-lets-you-explore-space-in-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasas-revamped-eyes-on-the-solar-system-lets-you-explore-space-in-your-browser","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Revamped Eyes on the Solar System Lets You Explore Space in Your Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-revamped-eyes-on-the-solar-system-lets-you-explore-space-in-your-browser2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA released an impressive desktop app some years back called \u201cNASA\u2019s Eyes Visualization,\u201d which allowed you to check out the solar system, along with all the spacecraft exploring it. But who installs programs anymore? It graduated to the web recently, and now it has an updated interface and tools. Simply head to the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system\/#\/home\">Eyes on the Solar System<\/a>\u201d site on your device of choice, and start exploring.<\/p>\n<p>The main interface of the new site is simply the orbits of the planets, color-coded with highlights to show you their current positions. The layout is accurate for the current time, but you can use either buttons or the slider at the bottom to speed up or reverse time. It goes as high or as low as three years per second. You have to figure this revamp was supposed to coincide with NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/tag\/artemis-program\">Artemis program<\/a>, but that\u2019s taking a bit longer than expected to get off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the clickable overview of the solar system, there are several suggested \u201cpoints of interest\u201d on the side of the screen. These are all along the same lines as the Eyes on the Solar System engine, but some (like the Perseverance landing simulation) load on a separate page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA released an impressive desktop app some years back called \u201cNASA\u2019s Eyes Visualization,\u201d which allowed you to check out the solar system, along with all the spacecraft exploring it. But who installs programs anymore? It graduated to the web recently, and now it has an updated interface and tools. Simply head to the \u201cEyes on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}