Solar System 4+
Explore our planetary backyard
NatureGuides Ltd.
Designed for iPad
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- $19.99
iPad Screenshots
Description
A breakthrough electronic book about our Solar System, offering hours of interactive exploration and presenting a treasure trove of visual information.
Bestselling author Marcus Chown leads us on a grand tour through the incredible diversity of planets, moons, asteroids, comets and spacecraft that surround the Sun in our cosmic backyard. Illuminating his insightful and surprising text are a wealth of beautiful 3D objects, movies, images, animations, and diagrams, all fully interactive, richly detailed and accurately based on real scientific data.
Set the heavens in motion in an interactive orrery that allows you to control the orbits of the moons and planets, observing them from any viewpoint with breath-taking surface detail. View the latest imagery returned by both manned and robot spacecraft, beautifully presented on the iPad screen. Then double-tap any astronomical object to jump directly to its chapter in the interactive book.
Solar System for iPad is the result of a collaboration between RGB (creators of The Elements) and Faber & Faber (London’s greatest independent publisher). It raises the bar yet again on what an interactive book can be. A perfect gift for anyone with an iPad: Solar System allows the imagination to roam free from Mercury to Pluto and beyond.
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Awards:
Winner of the FutureBook Digital Innovation Prize (The Bookseller Industry Awards) – March 2011
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Reviews:
“There is so much to this application that I can only begin to scratch the surface on its offerings. As with The Elements the content and presentation truly make learning fun and inspiring.”
- WIRED Magazine
“The new Solar System for iPad app is an amazing and extraordinarily attractive resource for amateur astronomers... an out-of-this-world digital book that is as informative as it is beautiful. It’s a stellar example for other reference app makers on how to best take advantage of the tablet medium.”
- USA Today, Marc Saltzman
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Features:
• Exclusive theme song by Björk
• More than150 beautifully presented story pages
• Richly Illustrated with interactive diagrams, videos and 3D objects
• Over 40 rotatable and zoomable 3D astronomical objects
• Over 600 images from NASA, ESA and JAXA space missions
• Detailed captions including technical data
• Live astronomical information from Wolfram|Alpha®
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About the author:
Leading science writer and former radio astronomer Marcus Chown is cosmology consultant to New Scientist magazine and the author of numerous books including The Quantum Zoo (known internationally as Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You).
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What’s New
Version 1.1.9
Minor bug fixes and tweaks.
Ratings and Reviews
Super informative and perfectly functional
I was a little hesitant to spend the $15-$20 that this app cost given the single and bad review at that of the newest version... But it showed promise and i went all in with hopes for the best - hopes that materialised upon opening the app. I have it installed on the ipad air. I feel this point is inportant to note as it seems from other reviews that older ipads may not be so happy to run this app. All i can say is: if you have the newest ipad - do not hesitate to buy this - at the price of a book, this is well worth it with the beautiful, animated 3d models and accompanying information.
Must have for ipad air.
Solar System
If you have Elements then this is better. If you have this get Elements. If you have any affinity with chemistry or astronomy you will love both of these apps. The graphics and data included will blow your mind or maybe even expand it. I would have paid double for both of them.
Completly agree with manu00 and guy33, but...
I'd give both of these apps six stars if it were possible.
I realise hardware constraints may make this a problem, but would it be possible to see all moons, the asteroid belt and the outer belt, all at the same time? It'd give a great perspective of our solar system.
You have the power to focus on one planet and therefore its moons; it'd be cool if you could just see all moons all the time.
Can you also add the orbits of humea, makemake and eris?
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Information
- Seller
- NatureGuides Ltd.
- Size
- 1.1 GB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2021 RGB Co. Ltd
- Price
- $19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.