Solar System
Explore our planetary backyard
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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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5 out of 5

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Overall, a good buy.

ThatLaserGuy on

This app is very informative and interactive. I got it for my kids but think I enjoy it more than they do. My only grievance is with Pluto. After all the hype and spectacular wonders we recently saw with the little planet that could, it is not reflected in this app. Please do an update for this and other items recently discovered.

Great app

Alaingmail on

Just one thing I would add to make it even better. It would be nice if it had the remote bottom to view it on Apple TV

French title english version

Andredelaregie on

Why do you put a french name for an app that do not have a french version. I'm really mad and I d'ont feel I should pay for that.

Please add IOS 5 support

Cantenna on

If you had been following the press you would have realized iOS 6 is a step backwards, not forward. Thanks!

Outstanding!

Voyager9 on

I am most grateful to the creators of this most enjoyable form of education about our home turf. Very well presented astronomical facts.

Was good

Blindcell on

This app was 5 stars for me. But now I'm only giving it a 2.. It didn't need a net connection before. But now for the wolf gram info it does. If I buy and download a app I want it to work where ever. Not need the net. I would just use safari if I wanted to look this up online. To bad, it was one of my fav apps....

Update worked after power-cycle

Jim Davis Toronto on

On my ipad2, running ios6, with more that 4 gigs free, the update suspended at about ten percent done. Thought it was dead, but then I turned ipad off and on again and the update finished. App is good, but I wish the update process was less dramatic.

Does not load in iOS 6 3rd gen iPad

PilotJeff on

Absolutely terrible update to what was previously a good book/application.

Book format of the future!

ali_one on

I am not new to Mac, using Mac since I was in high school in 80s, I got ipad mini few days ago, my first ipad, I have to admit that I am late to the party, this book is like a gift to any cosmology lover, it's book format of the new beginning , new era of tablets, whole new way of looking & understanding the things around us, I really admire the people, who thought and execute the idea so brilliantly. I will buy rest of the books too, even though they are not my subject of interest, I have ipad mini , using iOS 6.1, no problem to report. I have a suggestion for you, stop reading my review...just buy it, you will enjoy.

Consistantly crashes in iPad 3, iOS6

CanadianWalrus on

The new version of the app consistantly crashes on my 3rd gen iPad running iOS 6.01, which is sad considering this update was supposed to add functionality on that very platform.

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App Info

Category
Books
Publisher
NatureGuides Ltd.
Languages
German, English, Japanese
Recent version
1.1.9 (2 years ago )
Released on
Dec 21, 2010 (13 years ago )
Last updated
1 month ago