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You have always dreamed go for a walk with NASA? Maybe give you one trip to Mars to see what effect it has? Thanks to a collaboration between NASA And Google you can do a real 360° exploration of Mars!
The images we see are in fact all the work of Curiosity rover, launched on November 26, 2011 and landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. What awaits us is a real 360° tour, a audio guide of the red planet with real pictures and with everything NASA has interesting to tell us. We talk about it because Access Mars is, moreover, a project Open source.
If you enjoyed the trip, we also propose other projects, unfortunately not Open source but still decidedly curious and in line with the topic. For example, you could take a look at Exoplanet Exploration, always a simulation of the NASA, on what exoplanets might look like recently discovered. We can take a closer look at the famous one Kepler-16b or a 55-Cancri-e where yes walk over an endless sea of glowing lava.
Walking with NASA
The program also exists Solar System Treks where it is possible to see the celestial bodies of our solar system up close with (real!) images that are nothing short of breathtaking. You can just see the galleries present or do some real space explorations!
Last, but not least, thanks to this project Of SpaceX we can operate a real spacecraft. The one you will use in this simulation is, in fact, the current interface used by NASA to allow the capsules to dock with the ISS.
In short, the only project Open source of this article is Access Mars but we took the opportunity to talk to you about other related projects which are truly amazing to say the least!
Sites we talked about
- Access Mars: 360° tour of Mars
- Exoplanet Exploration: simulation of what discovered exoplanets might look like
- NASA Solar System Treks: traveling journey within our solar system
- SPACEX – ISS Docking Simulator: try docking to the ISS with the real interface used by NASA!
Source code by Access Mars
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