https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
Has anyone tried, or played around with OpenSpace?
It's supposed to be a software that lets you visualize the whole, known universe from your computer, including of course, all the planets and satellites within our Solar System, but also way beyond.
The whole thing is free, open-sourced, and done in collaboration with both Gov and commercial partners such as NASA, ESRI and other academic institutions, such as the American Museum of Natural History. My understanding is that it uses the Digital Universe Atlas datasets (video above).
Unfortunately, my decade-old laptop with a mutilated GPU can't even get past the launcher. Suffice to say, this software requires a decent, modern computer; gamers rejoice (both Windows and MacOS)
It also allows users to download optional data-sets for tracking commercial satellites; NASA missions (Voyager 1 & 2, etc.) as well Moon, Mars surfaces.
I'm sure there are alternatives, and if you know of a good one, feel free to share below;)
PS: They have a Youtube page with tutorials and how-tos for navigating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAubyLm-Q8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYNviti5gM
