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NASA's real-time 3D model of every mission in flight, letting you ride along with a probe on its actual trajectory.
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Eyes on the Solar System sits in Space & Scale under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Space, deep time and the size of things. Every site here exists to give you the one thing a textbook diagram cannot: actual scale.
Yes. Eyes on the Solar System is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Eyes on the Solar System without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Eyes on the Solar System as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Tells you exactly when the space station will pass over your garden, and which direction to look.
A map of the solar system drawn to true scale, meaning most of your scrolling is spent crossing absolutely nothing.
A calendar of every conjunction, eclipse and meteor shower coming up, with charts drawn for your own location.
Travel outwards at light speed while hearing which radio hits have reached each distance, oldest at the far edge.
Accurately drawn birds swearing at each other about territory, mating and the general indignity of being a bird.
Two dozen SVG generators in one place — noise, grain, blobs, dots, gradients, mesh — all exportable and all free.
Animated bar chart races, scrollytelling and story maps built from a spreadsheet without writing any code.
Paint with thick wet oils that pile up, smear and catch the light exactly like the real thing, entirely in a browser tab.
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