View the 3D Solar System simulation on your desktop and read the descriptions of the planets, spacecraft, and asteroids. Enjoy the eclipses, sunsets, and volcano eruptions from other planets, learn about near-Earth asteroids, dive through the rings of Saturn, etc.
Cosmographia uses beautiful and realistic 3D graphics to show you the Solar System. Watch eclipses on other planets, volcanoes erupting on Io, spacecraft in orbit, sunsets from space, and near-Earth asteroids making uncomfortably close approaches to our planet. Follow the Cassini mission to Saturn as it skims above the surface of Enceladus and dives through Saturn's rings. Enable all half million known asteroids and see the accelerating pace of asteroid discovery over the past few decades. If you own red/cyan anaglyph 3D glasses, you can watch everything in stereo.
Cosmographia contains a Solar System guide with descriptions of the all the planets, moons, asteroids and spacecraft. The guide is integrated with the 3D visuals: click a link in the text and see a live 3D view of a planet or moon.
v1.4 [Mar 20, 2012]
New Solar System gallery screen for quickly navigating to planets, moons and asteroids
Planetary atlas: labels for surface features of planets and moons
Detailed 3D model of the asteroid Vesta
Trajectory and information about the newly discovered near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14
Added switch to select between metric and Imperial/US units
New distance measuring tool: choose any two objects and display the distance between them and their relative speed
