provides an educational tour of the Sun and nine planets.
It includes information on the Sun, planets, satellites, and the spacecraft that have visited them. The tour uses hypertext to let you click on a desired planet to display information and images about that planet. It includes information about the planet's moons, atmosphere, structure, rings, mythology, missions, statistics and more.
Unusual terms are clearly defined with direct links to over 100 terms taken from the Windows Dictionary of Astronomy. It contains over 150 of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program.
Visual Planets can be accessed from the astronomy program Coeli - Stella 2000.
Visual Planets runs on
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 2 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Astronomy.
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