What is NASA Eyes?
NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System is a free, website that, that’s a 3D stimulation that lets you explore:
- Travel through the solar system in real life
- Track spacecrafts such as Voyager 1 and Perseverance
- Zoom in on planets, moons and missions
- Go back and forward time to explore space history
It’s like controlling a spaceship, but right from your laptop!
Voyager 1: A Look Into Interstellar Space
For this week, I followed Voyager 1, the furthest man-made object from Earth. I watched the Voyager 1 path from Earth to Jupiter and Saturn, and the edge of the solar system.
Voyager 1 is still sending signals from 15 billion miles away! This is mind-blowing!
Mars 2020: Watching Perseverance Land
I also looked at the Mars 2020 mission, paying attention to how the Perseverance rover landed on Mars and started gathering samples. I utilized the timeline tool to go back as far as February 2021, and watched it descend. You can track Mars2020 precise location on the Martian surface and observe the mission data in real time.
Watch NASA’s Eyes in the Act:
Want to take a look at how it started? Check this out
Wow! This looks like a really neat idea for your learning project. I had no idea that ordinary people could even access these kinds of photos and experiences through NASA. This looks like a great resource for teaching Science in middle years when teaching a unit on the solar system.
I really like the way you categorized different sections of the website and how each section works. This learning project is quite unique and seems like an endless project though I am sure will finish it at some point! Excellent!
This is so interesting! I never would have thought to use a sight like this in place of a textbook. I never really knew where to look to find space related information or pictures but this looks very cool!
This is such an interesting learning project! I had no idea NASA’s resources were so accessible, and it’s great to see how they can be used for education. I really liked how you organized the different sections of the website—it makes the information so much easier to explore. This would be an amazing tool for teaching the solar system in science. Looking forward to seeing where this project goes!
Just realized I pretty much said the same thing as everyone before me—lol! Guess that just means I absolutely agree with them! 😆 keep up the great work!!