Monday, September 5, 2011

Eyes on the Solar System

"Eyes on the Solar System" is a 3-D environment full of real NASA mission data. 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.

Not being an astronomy teacher, I can't offer details on how to use this site other than what I copied above from the site itself.  I think it would be amazing on an Interactive White Board, which all schools in our system will have installed this year.  I'm sure there are ways to allow the students to participate rather than just having the teacher demonstrate, so please offer your ideas in the comments section.

What I know for sure is that I think this looks pretty dang sweet!  And I would love to have been an astronaut.

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