Here’s an updated intro video to NASA JPL’s Eyes on the Solar System interactive program:
Welcome to Eyes on the Solar System — a new way for you to explore our cosmic neighborhood.
Eyes on the Solar System lets you fly to the planets, ride aboard our spacecraft and discover the wonders of robotic space exploration from right inside your web-browser.
It requires following a download and installation procedure.
The Lunar/Mars mission simulation by the North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory is into the 7th day of the 10 day project. (See earlier posts here and here.)
The 10 day Lunar/Mars mission simulation by the North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory has been underway since Sunday. (See earlier post.)
Three graduate students are living
inside an Inflatable Planetary Module, using a Pressurized Rover and two NDX-2AT space suits. All these elements were developed at the UND Space Suit Laboratory www.human.space.edu under a 3-year NASA grant.
You can follow their activities on the NDX Space Suit Projects. Here are their reports so far:
And a local newspaper story: UND starts a ten day lunar habitat experiment – WDAY | Fargo, ND (includes video news report):
The University of North Dakota UND Human Spaceflight Laboratory, which recently participated in the World Space Walk event with two other space suit teams, will start a ten day simulation of a planetary mission this Sunday: NDX Planetary Exploration System First Test Starts this Weekend! – NDX Space Suit Projects
Final preparations are taking place at the UND Department of Space Studies for the initial 10 days testing of the Lunar/Mars Inflatable Planetary Habitat. Three crewmembers , all UND Aerospace Graduate Students, will take part on this first mission. The objectives are to test the habitat, pressurized rover, and NDX-2AT space suits for habitation, and to test if all systems are operational.
Further details will be published on [NDX Space Suit Projects blog …], Saturday [Oct 26, 2013].
More details about the project:
Drawing of the habitat in which the 3 “crew members” will reside for 10 days.
Here is a JPL presentation about the use of immersive virtual environments to assist space exploration:
Caption:
How would you like to swim in the oceans of Europa? What would it feel like to climb Mount Olympus on Mars? Is it possible for all of us to experience these journeys together? The goal of the Telexploration project is to make us better explorers by building immersive environments that feel like we are really there. By drawing together technologies from sources as unlikely as the video game industry and advancing the state of the art in human-system interaction, we are working towards low-cost “holodecks” – not only for every NASA mission scientist, but for every person who longs to explore space with us. This presentation will describe our progress towards these ambitious goals as well as the challenges that are ahead.
Speaker:
Dr. Jeff Norris
Lead of the Mission Operations Innovation Office, Mission Systems and Operations Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory