NASA Launches A Home Version Of Star Trek's Stellar Cartography
Watching "Star Trek: Generations", who hasn't wanted their very own version of Stellar Cartography. Thanks to NASA, it's now available. Called "Eyes on the Solar System" and developed by Caltech & JPL, it's a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. According to the "Eyes on the Solar System" website you can explore the cosmos from your computer. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. It's up to you. You control space and time.
Also available on the "Eyes on the Solar System" website is your chance to follow the EPOXI mission in real-time. EPOXI is a combination of two missions and embraces NASA's mission to explore the origin and history of our solar system by understanding the composition and diversity of cometary nuclei and the properties of other planetary system. To learn more about the EPOXI mission, check out the official website here.
NASA has also provided a stellar cartography primer in the form of video tutorials, showing the in-and-outs of using the "Eyes on the Solar System" website. You will need to download the Unity Player browser plugin, but we can say it's definitely worth checking out.
Check out the "Eyes on the Solar System" website here.