Grand Tour 1.0.0


Category: Education
Price: $4.99 (iTunes)

Description:

Ever wanted to soar over Saturn’s rings, or wheel around through the moons of Jupiter. Now you can…(mostly).

In the 60s NASA developed an ambitious plan to explore the outer planets, and called it The Grand Tour. Later known as the Voyager missions, they would turn into some of the most successful missions in NASA’s history. Those journeys turned tiny flickering points in the sky, to places; real places that we had just visited. And now you can visit those same places (for a little less than what a Voyager probe cost), whenever you like.

Replicating the solar-system, and its major moons in stunning detail, Grand Tour will let you zip about the solar-system at will and see the sights as they would look like at this very moment.

• View the planets and their moons from any angle with a simple flick of our finger.
• Planetary positions calculated and updated continuously
• Real-time cloud images for the earth, updated every 3 hours.
• Constellation names and outlines
• Animate the motions of other worlds forward or backwards.
• Detailed descriptions of each world.
• Simple list of experiments.
• As comic-book guy might say on The Simpsons: Coolest iPhone (not to mention iPod/touch) app ever!
• Costs about $149,999,999,995 less then the Voyager probes.
• ...and perfect for us lazy astronomers who want to skim across the surface of the moon without leaving the jacuzzi.

So next time work gets boring, take a quick trip to Mars, ( or Venus, or Jupiter or…oh, well, you get the idea).

Oh, and check into my other product, Distant Suns for a free wheeling jaunt through the night sky.

Questions, comments or ceaseless praise? AIM me at lazyastronomer.

Grand Tour



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