{"id":1469,"date":"2026-04-04T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:20:01","slug":"interactive-eyes-on-the-solar-system-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Interactive \"Eyes on the Solar System\" (NASA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This in-browser Solar System viewer is pretty nice, <a href=\"https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system\"><strong>https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system<\/strong><\/a>. Best viewed on larger screens (tablet\/laptop\/desktop) but also works on smaller phone screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It lets you zoom around, focus on things, lots of options to control what's shown. Also some time-travel into past\/future. This is from NASA, so emphasis is on the kinds of thing that NASA is interested in.  You can find things just by scrolling\/zooming around, but if you know what you want you can use the search at the top (magnifying glass icon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For really high profile things like Voyager 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system\/#\/sc_voyager_2\">link<\/a>) there's a timeline view that lets you timetravel quickly get to the \"interesting\" bits of the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I happen to be posting this while Artemis 2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system\/#\/sc_artemis_2\">link<\/a>) is on it's way to the Moon flyby.  For missions that are live, it shows current position.  After the mission, you can use timetravel to view where it went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA has several other \"Eyes\" apps, that focus on things a bit more: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eyes\/\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eyes\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in-browser Solar System viewer is pretty nice, https:\/\/eyes.nasa.gov\/apps\/solar-system. Best viewed on larger screens (tablet\/laptop\/desktop) but also works on smaller phone screens. It lets you zoom around, focus on things, lots of options to control what's shown. Also some time-travel into past\/future. This is from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=1469\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}