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NASA space app

NASA space app
Even if you are not a space nerd you will find this free app from NASA interesting. In this NASA app for the iphone the space agency has enabled you to get easy access to some of their amazing photographs and information on past, present and future space exploration projects. It means you have thousands and thousands of photographs in your pocket. NASA’s image-of-the-day and astronomy-photo-of-the-day collections are viewable in searchable thumbnail grids.

At the bottom menu bar touch the Photo button. At the top you will now see a search button. Enter the word ‘mars’ and the grid changes to be filled with lots of NASA photographs from the planet Mars. Type in words like ‘nebula’, ‘gas giant’, ‘hubble’, ‘X-ray’ and ‘gamma’. Prepare to be amazed. What is great is that you can add you favorite photos to you iPhone camera film roll by touching the button in the bottom left hand corner that looks like a tray with an arrow coming out of it.

You can also watch videos from NASA TV of science updates, mission activity, rocket launches. NASA’s mission pages have status updates and live countdowns clocks. I like the feature that shows exactly where the International Space Station or space shuttle is right now. NASA has used iPhone’s GPS and mapping abilities to plot their orbit tracks.