NASA's 3D space exploration tool Eyes on the Solar system now works in browser

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It's a common dream among our terrestrial species to one day explore the stars. Some of us have grown up with boots on the moon long in our history and boots on Mars planned for 2040(opens in new tab), causing us to look forward to a future of space exploration. Sadly, it's coming along a bit slower than what my dreams were hoping for, but NASA is still helping our stranded little species get a taste of space with things like these amazing photographs(opens in new tab) and 3D solar system renderings.

Back in 2010 NASA released a free software suite called NASA's Eyes Visualisation. It's an incredibly interesting tool that realistically simulates spacecraft, planets, and other items in our solar system based on real data. Just a few days ago the company released NASA's Eyes in browser format (spotted by HotHardware(opens in new tab)), so anyone with a computer can check out some of the happenings in our local system.

Jumping onto the new NASA's Eyes website(opens in new tab) will give you a 3D rendering of our system live, or you can play around with the controls to move time to your whim. Clicking on objects will give you more information about them, and you can move around them and zoom in and out fairly freely. Some objects' surfaces can even have high textures turned on to boot. It takes me back to mining resources in Mass Effect, but hopefully without the mining part.

There are still some other seriously cool features in this web browsing look at the solar system. It has a telescope mode that allows you to land on a planet and see the night's sky from that perspective. It's the closest I've ever come to pulling a Dr Manhattan and just chilling out on Mars while the world spins on without me.

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