Eyes on the Solar System

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Eyes on the Solar System ( EotSS ) is a software for simulating and presenting realistic views of spacecraft , planets , comets and other features of our solar system . It was developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) , which also provides the current data for the software and previously developed the Eyes on the Earth 3D program. The software has been further developed since its release in 2010 and has been based on Java since mid-2012 , making it platform-independent . EotSS uses the Unity (game engine ) . The software can be compared with NASA World Wind , Stellarium , Celestia , among others , whereby there are sometimes very large differences.

Almost all celestial bodies (stars, planets, moons, asteroids , comets, etc.) and all civil space vehicles including their orbits or missions can be displayed . Zoom function and an interactive timeline, on which the constellation of the solar system can be set for all times of the past, present (with real time ) and future, enable control in the 3D view (which can also be stereoscopic (3D) using 3D glasses ( anaglyph , red-cyan).

The highest number of users to date, and thus the greatest access to the server for the stream data, was during the entrance and landing of the Curiosity rover . An additional 739,000 users were using EotSS over the weekend, and 20 terabytes of data was transferred through the JPL servers. The time of the rover's contact with the surface of Mars had been predicted weeks earlier by a team planning flight paths for spacecraft, and was accurate to within a fraction of a second.

In December 2011, the software was presented by NASA employee Jon Nguyen at a TED TEDx conference in San Diego .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hussey, KJ (2010, September). "Eyes On The Solar System" A Real-time, 3D Interactive Experience For Planetaria and Beyond. In European Planetary Science Congress 2010 (PDF; 95 kB), held September 20-24 in Rome, Italy. p. 50.
  2. ↑ Darrel Taft: Government IT: NASA's Curiosity: How Java, Other Tech Powered the Latest Mars Mission . In: eweek . 
  3. ^ Nancy Atkinson: What Will Curiosity's "View" Be as it Approaches the Red Planet? . In: Universe Today . 
  4. ^ Kerlin, A. (2012). My mega grab-bag of astronomy resources for teachers, students, telescope beginners and space fans . (English)
  5. ↑ Nerlich Steve (November 4, 2010): Eyes On The Solar System . Article introducing the software on Universe Today .
  6. ^ Doug Ellison: MSL Sol 4 breifing . In: YouTube . 
  7. ^ Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home (accessed June 16, 2013)

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