NASA iPad App Ignores Important Solar System Objects and Missions
What’s missing from this picture on this iPad app’s “landing page”? Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta for starters. NASA has missions on their way to these worlds (Dawn and New Horizons). But it does show the ISS (which is not a planet or a moon). Whether you think Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta are planets or dwarf planets or something else, they are the destinations for major missions and deserve to be on this front page. Not to do so is to ignore a billion dollar’s worth of hardware and science. I wonder who reviews these apps prior to release? More below.
What’s missing from this picture on this iPad app’s “landing page”? Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta for starters. NASA has missions on their way to these worlds (Dawn and New Horizons). But it does show the ISS (which is not a planet or a moon). Whether you think Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta are planets or dwarf planets or something else, they are the destinations for major missions and deserve to be on this front page. Not to do so is to ignore a billion dollar’s worth of hardware and science. I wonder who reviews these apps prior to release? More below.
New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
NASA has unveiled NASA App HD, a new mobile application designed for the iPad. The application is available free of charge at the App Store from Apple.
NASA App HD features live streaming video from NASA Television, an interactive map with links to all the agency’s field centers, quick links to feature stories and launch schedules, a scrolling “alerts banner,” and a “NASA Featured” link. The first featured link focuses on women in space.
The app’s landing page features the solar system, where users can learn more about our neighborhood, the universe and NASA missions. The app also enables users to experience and search updated, higher resolution NASA Image of the Day and Astronomy Picture of the Day collections and agency videos on demand.
“Our goal with the first NASA App was to deliver current mission information, images, videos and news updates in the best possible way for the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Jerry Colen, NASA App project manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. “Now we’ve enhanced and expanded the application to include even more content and really take advantage of the iPad’s larger screen.”
The NASA App is available for free on the App Store for iPad or at: http://www.iTunes.com/AppStore
For more information about the NASA App HD for the iPad, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasaapp
