Nasa's Eyes: An Immersive Space Exploration

Go to NASA's Eyes and begin your space explorations...

Learning How to Navigate Eyes On the Solar System 

  

If you have a set of 3D glasses you can try the 3D Mode

At Linked In, Ad Nieuwenhuizen explains Nasa's Eyes, the 3D Solar System simulator 

Here is some of his excellent description:

 NASA distributes a free simulator of the Solar System, named "Eyes on the Solar System" with their mission data in it. The the Solar System can be seen in real time or at any time between 1 January 1950 and 31 December 2049. It can be used in a "simple" - or "advanced" mode depending on your experience. An object, like a planet, moon, comet, asteroid or NASA satellite, can be visited by just clicking on it. You can even re-experience the landing of Curiosity on Mars or "jump" on the back of Cassini, while orbiting Saturn, by taking a programmed tour. The 3D anaglyph mode can be experienced with red-cyan glasses.

The simulator has also 2 other modes. The first "Eyes on the Earth" shows the datasets of the Earth explorers, while the Earth can be rotated by mouse. The latest datasets, like CO, CO2, 03, water vapor, sea level, gravity field, global winds and many more, can be seen at every average computer on Earth.

The third mode "Eyes on the Exoplanets" takes you to a sphere of about 800 light years around the Sun and shows the neighbour stars, where exoplanets have been discovered. By clicking on a star, the planetary system with it's habitable zone can be seen. And when you want to take a vacation at a planet, the program comes with an estimate of the travel time.


And here is a helpful review from Anton Petrov on YouTube...