![]() ![]() ![]() Everything you ever wanted to know about Saturn is available, and it reveals startling facts about the planetary weather such as a bizarre hexagonal storm system that encircles the planet’s north pole. Saturn is a great application all about the planet Saturn and its moons, with a very cool and futuristic interface straight out of Star Trek. Moon Atlas contains everything you ever wanted to know about the moon A wonderful way to learn about our closest celestial neighbour. Spacecraft that have visited the moon are included, and there’s a complete searchable database of every object. Any of the moon’s features can be investigated by double-clicking on the relevant labels, and you can zoom right out to get a detailed 3D view of the entire moon. The Moon Atlas app is by the same developers as the aforementioned Mars Atlas, and presents a similar view and application interface. Mars Atlas is the only compendium about Mars you'll ever need There really isn’t a better Mars application than this, and you can even use pinch and zoom gestures to zoom in closer to the planet’s surface. It’s only concerned with Mars and provides extremely hi-res images of the entire planet’s surface, as well as details of interesting features and locations of the Mars rovers, which are updated at startup. Mars Atlas is probably the most comprehensive Mars app for the Mac. Equinox displays very detailed information about the night's sky In this sense, it offers something more than most astronomy apps do, and is very accurate in terms of the information offered. Explore the galaxy with CosmographiaĮquinox isn’t the cheapest astronomy tool, but besides information about planetary bodies it can also control most telescopes with the added advantage that you can use voice commands. One of the nicest features is that you can view past, current and future events, and easily find out when the International Space Station and other objects will be overhead. There are detailed planetary models with lots of details, and you can view any of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun. ![]() Details: Apple website, developer websiteĬosmographia is a realistic solar system simulation that lets you view planets and asteroids in glorious 3D. ![]()
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