14 DAY TRIAL // Apple Design Awards 2010 winner, Vito Technology, has released Solar Walk for Mac, the desktop version of its 3D Solar System model application originally released for iOS devices.
Solar Walk allows users to explore the Solar System, as well as the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
Notable features include real-time trajectories of the most interesting artificial Earth's satellites, your current position marker, the biggest cities on the globe, and the points of interests on Mars, Venus, and the Moon.
Just like its iOS counterpart, the app starts an educational movie collection with the first video: "Solar System Planets' Size Comparison."
It includes small Pluto which, for a few years now, hasn’t been regarded as a planet.
Vito Technology believes that the greatest and most impressive feature of its Solar Walk app is the availability to explore the Milky Way and find where our Solar System lies in it.
Users can zoom in and zoom out to turn the Solar System and the galaxy in any direction.
“Solar Walk brings us closer to the Moon, Mars, and Venus where we can find named points of interests on their surfaces,” the company said.
“You can catch someone’s imagination naming craters of Mars or Venus, or just study astronomy with your kids.”
A list of key features is provided as follows:
The Solar Walk features: · 3D Solar System: availability of stereo view to get an unique and impressive stereoscopic experience at absolutely different level · Satellites: 10 Earth satellites trajectories · Galaxy View: expanded view of the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy · Movie: the 1st educational movie "Solar System Planets' Size Comparison"
Solar Walk supports US English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later, and about 70 MB of free space.
Solar Walk costs $2.99 USD and is available worldwide exclusively through Apple’s iOS and Mac App Stores in the Education category.