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Chances are the coronavirus outbreak has curtailed any ambitious summer vacation plans you may have had. But as far as Google is concerned, that doesn’t need to be the case. In fact, the internet giant wants to take you to space.

Google Arts & Culture now offers a full, 360-degree virtual tour of the International Space Station, and it’s accessible to anyone with internet access. Making use of the company’s Street View technology, the tour lets you explore every single nook and cranny of the 21-year-old space station without the decades of hard work and preparation that would normally require.

A look inside the International Space Station  Google Arts & Culture

While you won’t get to experience the feel of floating through the space station, Google’s digital exhibition feels like the next best thing. You can travel down any of ISS’s long and winding tunnels and look around all of its equipment-packed rooms. You can even check out the crew quarters and see some of the astronauts’ personal items.

In addition to the tour, Google has also whipped up a fun and educational ISS-themed informational program. Aimed specifically at younger virtual space tourists, the show attempts to illustrates what life on the station is like. It covers everything from what and how the visiting astronauts eat to the effect that zero-gravity takes on their bodies while they orbit the Earth.

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If your virtual trip to the ISS has only managed to stoke your appetite for more space content, Google has you covered. The station tour is just one of several digital exhibitions Arts & Culture has on its Space Exploration page. Other exhibitions of interest include a closer look at the moon landing , a tribute to women who have gone to space , as well as scores of high-definition video content shot from space. Of course, if your virtual traveling interests are more earthbound, there’s still plenty of content for you to check out on Arts & Culture, too. The company also has countless virtual tours of tourist attractions, national parks and museums around the world.

Bryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. Before joining the magazine, he worked for the New York Post, Artinfo and New York magazine, where he covered everything from celebrity gossip to…

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Take a Virtual Tour of the International Space Station (Video)

Here's your chance to see what the inside of the ISS is actually like.

Not everyone will get the chance to explore space, but this virtual tour of the International Space Station (ISS) comes pretty close.

Google Arts & Culture is a treasure trove for the history, art, and science lover. This platform has been around for a few years, but since the coronavirus outbreak started it has become a must-see for anyone who wants to enrich themselves during lockdown.

Virtual tours of museums, national parks, and popular tourist attractions have certainly been excellent ways to educate and entertain yourself at home, but there’s another collection of online tours and exhibits that space and science lovers should definitely see — including a 360-degree tour of the ISS .

This virtual tour uses Google Street View to explore the space station as if you’re really inside it. Move through the narrow tunnels, see the massive amounts of equipment, and generally experience what it’s like to be a real astronaut.

In addition, there are lots of other ways to explore space on Google Arts & Culture. One fascinating online exhibit is dedicated to the moon landing (which is coming up on its 51st anniversary this year). Take a deeper dive into the Apollo space program by exploring the hundreds of photos from the Apollo 11 mission, as well as stories on the Columbia Memorial Space Center and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Google Arts & Culture also has an amazing fact sheet that details 10 “out-of-this-world” facts about the International Space Station (ISS), which is perfect to help kids supplement their online learning experience while most schools are closed. Plus, there is a collection of eight truly stunning photographs from space that will make you appreciate our little blue planet even more.

There are also dozens of specific online exhibits to choose from, such as an exhibit focused on women in space, an exploration of aviation history, and a collection of videos that are all about space exploration.

For more information, take the virtual tour, or see an online space exhibit, visit the Space Exploration page on Google Arts & Culture.

New Virtual Tour Lets You Explore the International Space Station

Very few people get to fly to low Earth orbit, let alone live there. But now, the rest of us can enjoy a simulation of the experience, thanks to a new virtual tour of the International Space Station (ISS) created by the European Space Agency. 

Available in six languages — English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Dutch — the narrated video takes the viewer on an end-to-end journey through the station, inside and out. Americans may particularly enjoy a close look at the Russian side of the space station, which is rarely featured in NASA photos. 

Space buffs will recognize some file footage, but the full edited movie provides the illusion of being weightless inside the ISS and flying closely outside it. A 3D version of the video is available on YouTube , and is best viewed, of course, through stereoscopic 3D glasses. 

A short segment showing cosmonauts eating a meal gives a real sense of what it looks and feels like to eat in space. The narrator notes that there are no showers on board the space station, and that sponge baths are the rule. 

Ultimately, the virtual tour provides a sense of the enormous scale of the station's real estate. Although the living quarters are limited — in fact, they're even more cramped than a submarine — the station itself is nearly large enough to get lost in. At nearly four times as large as the Russian space station Mir , it's the biggest thing humans have ever built in space. 

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This 16-minute narrated tour of the International Space Station shows all the modules of humankind’s weightless laboratory orbiting Earth 400 km above.

The video is available in English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish and French and is shown to visitors at ESA’s technical heart ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

This video is also available in all languages in stereoscopic 3D on ESA's Youtube channel

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NASA VR / 360 multimedia for Planetarium Shows and Informal Education

Length:  ~ 5 minutes each Cost:  Free Last updated:  April 2024 Format: Live, interactive, and short clips/stills, with some fully immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experiences, and some Augmented Reality (AR) experiences  Software: Digital Sky 2 buttons, Uniview instructions, Digistar instructions, Digitalis instructions, Emerald Planetarium instructions, Shira player instructions, ePlanetarium instructions, OpenSpace instructions , some Rift, some Vive, and general media

Tagline:  “Step inside NASA's shoes.”

This is a collection of media and tools, which includes 360 spherical images/videos using equirectangular warping.  Members can access  an interactive, planetarium curriculum using these assets.  The media here should be usable by most digital planetarium systems, headset Virtual Reality, and smartphone VR setups, with minimum extra work to import them. There are also some true, interactive VR experiences listed on this page.  Files are downloadable below, including videos. See the NASA Media Use Policy  and the  JPL Image Use Policy .

Latest addition:   From NASA JPL, Explore Mars’ Gediz Vallis Channel With NASA’s Curiosity Rover , downloadable 8k version here .  From NASA Kennedy,  360 View Inside Artemis Emergency Egress Basket , available in higher than 4k resolution upon request .

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• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory  specializes in robotic space and Earth exploration, and is home to the Deep Space Network .
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center specializes in rocket engines and human spaceflight assembly.
• NASA Kennedy Space Center  specializes in launching space missions.
• NASA Johnson Space Center specializes in human exploration and operations.
• NASA Ames Research Center specializes in information technology, aerospace, and aeronautics.
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center  specializes in space telescopes, solar missions, and test chambers.  It's also home of the Scientific Visualization Studio, who has its own  360 and planetarium  content.
• NASA Langley Research Center specializes in aviation, Earth's atmosphere, and technology.
• NASA Glenn Research Center specializes in developing technology for aeronautics and space, including communications, propulsion, biomedical, and more.
• NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center  specializes in aircraft innovations including design, fabrication, operations, and more.
• NASA Stennis Space Center  specializes in rocket propulsion testing.
• NASA partners and projects  includes Hubble, Chandra, and other content.
• Other space-related VR and 360 content

For the public to try at home, view these YouTube 360 videos using your mobile device or computer, no goggles or other equipment is required.  Total length of the entire playlist is over 2.5 hours long (data charges may apply).  Pick your favorites and wow your friends and family with a rocket launch or trip to Mars!  Also, while not strictly VR, try the web browser 360 experience  NASA's Home and City  that details NASA spin offs. There may be some third-party content on this page.  NASA does not endorse third-party content.  Any third-party content is provided as examples of how NASA science can be used.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in third-party materials are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA.

Possible uses for museums and educators include the following:

• Use inside your existing planetarium shows, e.g. live, "space update" or "sky tonight" shows (see more information below for talking points), or use them in creating new shows.
• Use the alpha-channeled images as accurate panoramas for Martian landscapes.
• Use in a classroom, library, on the museum floor, or at a science festival.  They work with most mobile devices, computers, and of course full VR rigs.  Download for offline use to increase performance and reliabilty, and to decrease cellular data usage or Wi-Fi congestion.  Third party VR players may be needed.

NASA 360 videos and VR experiences:

• JPL Virtual Tour
• Earth 360 Video: The Call of Science  with downloadable mp4 .  Also see clips from that feature , available for download .
• 5,000 Exoplanets: Listen to the Sounds of Discovery , downloadable here .  Note as of posting, this item has flipped the Milky Way layer.  A corrected version is downloadable here .
• TRAPPIST-1d  - information for the artist concept  surface 360 video , with  labeled  and  unlabeled  stills (See more  TRAPPIST-1 art )
• See our other exoplanet surface 360 web experiences , includes talking points and features of interest on the surfaces.
• From the above web experience, download the 8K still of Kepler-16b's moon surface artist concept , and members can download modified versions of Kepler-186f's surface  here .
• NASA Solar System Treks for Mars  and the Moon  feature "Experience TrekVR" under the settings "wrench," which is compatible with smartphone and goggle set ups.
• JPL Space Flight Operations Facility and Mars Yard  - With static images of  Mars Yard  featuring Christina Diaz ,  SFOF  featuring Tracy Drain , as well as the Rover Ride Along  360 video
• Perseverance 360 "Van Zyl" view complete with audio , 8k file , 23k file , and 8k labeled version .
• The first panorama from the Perseverance rover , with downloadable 4k file .
• Explore Mars’ Gediz Vallis Channel With NASA’s Curiosity Rover , downloadable 8k version here .
• Curiosity at Gediz Vallis Ridge , with downloadable still , labeled , and overlay  with separate image .
• Atop 'Mont Mercou' , with downloadable 360 PNG (higher than 8k) .
• Glen Torridon  - 8k mp4 .
• Teal Ridge - 8k MP4
• Vera Rubin Ridge - Departs 4K
• Vera Rubin Ridge Panorama for the  8K Curiosity Mars Rover on Vera Rubin Ridge
• Ogunquit Beach  
• Murray Buttes , and for the title image at the top of this page , see the original posting , and the JPL feature for talking points.
• Naukluft Plateau
• Namib Dune  - For members only, see a version with alpha channeled sky .
• Pathfinder  - talking points for the 360 video
• Spirit - October 2016 McMurdo Panorama with alpha channel sky
• The  Engineering for Mars 2020 file  is a compressed version of the full 1.3 GB file, which is  available here .  Learn more about  Mars 2020 .
• Engineering for Mars - Mars InSight mission  at the In-situ lab at JPL is a 360 video in 60fps. Learn more about Insight here , which is landing on Mars in November 2018, and hear our archived conversations with the mission leads . For those having playback issues, Mars InSight  has a compressed version that may work for your dome/headset.
• Cassini Grand Finale  - talking points for the  Cassini Farewell from JPL , which is a ZIP file containing select shots and clips from the 360 livestream from the Cassini mission end on September 15, 2017.  The full, Emmy-award winning , 90 minute, 234 GB file can be viewed  here on YouTube .  The flat screen version can be viewed  here on YouTube .  Also, there's the  360 animation .
• Ceres Occator Crater   - talking points for the  360 flyby
• Juno  - resources and talking points for the  360 animation  with  extra audio , and  360 mission control for Jupiter Orbit Insertion   back to the top
• 4K Virtual Tour  takes audiences inside Flight Hardware Development, Payload Operations, and Propulsion Research Facilities.  Download here as a ZIP file.
• 8K " Step Inside NASA's Rocket Factory: The Michoud Assembly Facility " with captions ,  4k option , and audio  - For those having playback issues  Michoud is a compressed version that may work for your dome/headset.
• NASA Marshall  working on the  Orion spacecraft
• The  Space Launch System's Intertank transportation  - the 8K file is encoded using H265, let us know if you need help processing it for your planetarium. For those having playback issues, SLS - Intertank  is a compressed version that may work for your dome/headset.
• The U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s “ISS: Science on Orbit” Exhibit , with 8k-upscaled, compressed download here (uncompressed 4GB video available upon request).
• Human Exploration Rover Challenge VR Test footage back to the top
•  360 View Inside Artemis Emergency Egress Basket , available in higher than 4k resolution upon request , compressed version available for download .
• Orion in 360 Degrees  video with downloadable stills here , here , and here .
• NASA’s Artemis I Rocket at Rollout , downloadable here .
• Orion to SLS 360 video with downloadable MP4
• Artemis I Stage Adapter Lift and Mate , with downloadable MP4
• Artemis I Core Stage Lift and Mate , with downloadable 4k MP4
• SLS Core Stage Pathfinder Lift, Camera 1 , and Camera 2
• Artemis Path to the Pad: Crawler-Transporter 2 , with downloadable 4k file .
• Artemis Path to the Pad: Testing, software and the Launch Control Center with even more
• Installation of Orion's Spacecraft Adapter Cone , with downloadable 4k file .
• A New Era in Spaceflight 
• Video Highlights
• Preparing to Launch America
• Boeing CST-100 Starliner
• SpaceX Crew Dragon
• Launching from Kennedy Space Center
• Train Like an Astronaut
• Walk inside the Vehicle Assembly Building that assembles rockets for their final launch configuration.  See the downloadable MP4 .
• For the Parker Solar Probe mission , see the Launch 360 , with an  extra audio file .
• For the  Tracking and Data Relay Satellites , see the  Launch 360  with an  extra audio file ​
• For  Osiris Rex , see the  Launch 360  with an  extra audio file   
• For the  Joint Polar Satellite System , see the  Launch 360  with an  extra audio file  
• For the GOES missions , see the GOES-S Launch in 360 back to the top
• Nine Ways We Use AR and VR on the International Space Station  - article only
• Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory Tour
• For members, try this fisheye dome view from the ISS cupola , other ISS 360 content , and Space Shuttle 360 content
• NASA Astronaut training pool  with 4k downloadable .
• See inside the  HERA – the Human Exploration Research Analog  as well as outside
• Space Launch System Virtual Tour  for the Oculus Rift
• Spacesuit Training in a Vacuum  download link
• Welcome Home , the landing of the latest ISS crew in June 2018 back to the top
• Testing Small Spacecraft Communications Technology
• Wind Tunnel Test of NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket   back to the top
• A Web Around Asteroid Bennu , downloadable 8k version  here
• Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA)  downloadable 360 video
• Worldview Snapshots , an updated database of global mosaics of Earth, so you can download and display the very latest Earth image in your planetarium or other exhibit.  (Most uses will need the "Suomi" or the "NOAA" "True Color" maps.)
• Sample Asteroid Bennu in 360 , with downloadable HD file  and 8k file (for members only).
• Deep Star Maps  for rendering 360 space scenes
• Fly above Alaskan Glaciers
• Hubble Locations 360 Tour , Career Page , and Hubble Spacecraft 360 tour  (member planetariums can access an  offline version ).
• Black holes in 360
• James Webb 360  with audio , and James Webb at Johnson  
• Inside Hurricane Maria in 360
• Moon Phases in 360 designed for systems such as Science on a Sphere. 
• Hubble's 28th Anniversary from the Space Telescope Operations Control Center
• Tracking Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) Orbital Fleet  animation
• Not strictly 360, but a spherical display projection of the 2017 eclipse . back to the top
• Take a  Virtual Tour  (scroll down at each location to see the interactive 360 images)
• For members, see the 360 media packet for offline use.
• 360 Video of Greased Lightning GL-10 in flight back to the top
• Take a Virtual Tour
• For members, see the 360 multimedia packet for offline use. back to the top
• Armstrong Virtual Tour
• NASA’s ER-2 Cockpit During HyspIRI Hawaii Mission  - download here for offline use.
• F-18 Sonic Boom Dive , with downloadable  mp4 back to the top
• RS-25 Engine Test, video from NASA MSFC , with a printable infographic about the RS-25 Engine , for the 4 minute and 2 minute cut. back to the top
• From Fiske Planetarium, with NASA partnerships, a collection of free fulldome movies and clips , including some VR 360 content, such as the Forward to the Moon 360 clip  from the newly released fulldome film.
• Final Ariane 5 liftoff , downloadable here .
• Updated International Space Station 360 tours , some in French with English subtitles, downloadable here  and here  with still images , latest addition Apr, 2022.
• Space Station 360  with online playlist , also an  ISS 360 Tour with astronaut Tim Peake
• From the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex,  Explore NASA’s 70-Meter Deep Space Communications Dish , with the Spanish Language version .
• 360 Virtual Tour of the Chandra Operations Control Center (OCC) , including other VR and relevant resources.
• Reach Across the Stars, women in STEM AR app
• Walking Among the Stars , a series of VR products including 360 videos, Vive, and AR
• An Immersive Visualization of the Galactic Center  - talking points for the  downloadable 360 video , and see the "sequel"  released in March 2019 with a downloadable 4k version . 
• Spitzer's Final Voyage 360 video  (and updated for 2021 ), 8k version available for download .
• NASA's Exoplanet Excursions VR Experience , for Vive, Oculus, and YouTube 360, downloadable 360 video here  (8k 60fps).  Planetariums and other content developers may also be interested in their TRAPPIST-1 planet surface textures .
• WebbVR  for the Vive, a free, "true VR," interactive game.
• Fly through the Orion Nebula.  Info and downloadable  dome masters for planetariums are here , and the  360 file is here .  Also, see the updated versions in Infrared , Visible , and Combined wavelengths, with those dome masters here: Infrared , Visible , and Combined .
• Space Telescope AR app, for iOS
• From Arizona State University, with NASA partnerships, a global and interplanetary  Virtual Field Trip  web experience and mobile experience . back to the top

Please note that NASA does not endorse or verify third-party commercial content.  These are examples of how NASA science can be used.  Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in third-party materials are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NASA.

• From the Cedar Falls High School Rocket Club - a 360 look from inside a rocket launch on April 28, 2022  and one from April 8, 2022
• From Space Center Houston - Saturn V Rocket stages
• From the Planetarium Laupheim - free, fulldome feature "Red-Eye to the Star" planetarium movie about SOFIA , available in VR/360 format , too 
• From the Clark Planetarium, their "Dome from Home" Series of 360 videos .
• From the Museum of Science, Boston, tour NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center .
• From Lockheed Martin, see the loading of the Orion Spacecraft.
• From the BBC, Total Solar Eclipse from Space 360
• From the National Space Centre, in the UK, ObserVRtarium for Vive and Rift. Also, see the Capcom Go 360 video and AR apps about the Apollo missions.
• From the Smithsonian, 360 images and a full 3D model of the Apollo 11 CM  are a part of their full 3D printable collection.
• From the European Southern Observatory, there's a library of 360 panoramas , and VR videos
• From the BMC, Black Hole VR 360 video
• From BBI, Project Eagle: A 3D Interactive Mars Base  for the Vive.
• From Mission ISS , a 360 flythrough of a digital ISS  to accompany their Rift experience.
• From Google Street View - explore the ISS through Google Maps , and try this public photo library  to construct your own 360 or fulldome images/videos (members only) . 
• From FMG Labs, Mars 2030 VR experience  for Vive and Rift - read about it on the  NASA site , and note that the experience may be free for educators if you contact them with your educational email address.
• From Google Expeditions - host virtual tours of the Juno mission NASA centers, the ISS, Mars, and more.  Just search for "NASA" in the app.
• From NBC News: Inside Boeing's Starliner Capsule
• From 8i, Cycling Pathways on Mars for Vive, and a 360 trailer from TIME
• From USA Today, 360 walk on the Moon .
• From the New York Times, 360, narrated flyby of Pluto with New Horizons
• From NOAA, not exactly 360, but might still work for some setups -  Science on a Sphere Space database .
• Taken at the California Science Center, the  Endeavor  space shuttle talking points for the cylinder panorama in " JPL VR Images ZIP ."  Also, consider this  Space Shuttle 360 video , and this Space Shuttle Carrier 360 video .
• From the USGS,  Apollo 11  talking points for the cylinder panorama in " JPL VR Images ZIP " (note those cylinders can be easily converted to spherical 360 images). For members , see our Apollo 50th anniversary resource list . 
• From National Geographic One Strange Rock ~5-minute 3D 360 film about the ISS and astronauts.
• From the Planetary Society, see Seán Doran's  Curiosity selfie 360  (source of the page image)
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As more 360º video and VR content is released, this page will be updated.  As general tips for planetariums using 360 video, most systems allow you to adjust the tilt and camera center within the spherical video so you can see more landscape, and/or focus on areas of interest throughout the video.  Play with a video to see what the best angles and positions are for your dome setup, and members can ask questions: [email protected] .

• Download the image/video
• Get a set of GPS coordinates to locate a sphere on an object (e.g., Earth or Mars).  
• Create an OpenSpace asset (see this example  for Mars at -4.69520223,137.3530064 ) where you can use the GlobeTranslation to attach a RenderableSphere to mars.  The GPS coordinates get fed to the GlobeTranslation and the image path gets fed to the RenderableSphere as a texture. 
• The 'Size' of the RenderableSphere in meters. For 360 images, the numbers are usually arbitrary.
• The Altitude of the GlobeTranslation, by default, when using the heightmap it will put the sphere 1/2 into the ground, so you may have to adjust the altitude based on the size value chosen.
• Then set the X, Y, and Z Rotation of the sphere.
• In the OpenSpace settings, open the NaigationHandler -> OrbitalNavigator and change the 'Minimum allowed distance" to 1 to get inside the panorama.  Ideally you'll want to locate yourself directly in, or as close to the center of the sphere to avoid too much warping of the view.  
• These  Digital Sky 2 buttons include example placement, movement and rotation buttons for your presenters to move and look around the simulations.  Note that these buttons are provided merely as examples, and contain only the first few 360 items that were released in 2016.  If you run into any issues using the newer 360 content, please let us know (see the team chat link above).
• Essentially, it creates a sphere primitive using the 360 items as a Material/Texture, and moves the sphere around the camera at different angles to simulate the experience.
• This uses geometric primitives and was made on version 2.4.  
• Remember that file names and file locations need to match in the code.
• Members can access a planetarium curriculum with another example Digital Sky 2 button set, script, and media packet.
• For Dark Matter Users: Create a sphere asset, parent it to the Camera. Create a Media Asset, load your video there. Set your Inner Emissive to "Media:" then the Media Asset Name, e.g. "Media:MediaAssetName" (note: NOT the file name). You'll have to tweak it for your dome and for each video. For example, you can set diffuse to black, set the Z position to 0.5 to see a bit more of the horizon, (note: you sacrifice some warping at the zenith for that), and you can tilt it and rotate, too, if you want change the view in the dome and/or look at the "ground." 

For videos inside World Viewer (From the WorldViewer Manual, starting on Page 17):

• Panoramic images and videos can be placed on your virtual Earth, allowing people to quickly navigate to and explore immersive content. Drag a 360-degree panoramic image onto a blank cell within the Panos track. Assign this to a “Geolocated Panorama” clip type.
• Once you’ve loaded a pano bubble, you can click the Fly To radio button under Playback Controls to toggle flying in or out. The Home button also moves the camera out of a pano bubble and back to a zoomed out view of Earth. It’s also possible to load 360-degree movies. When you fly to a movie clip, it will begin playing as soon as you click on “Fly to.”
• Flying into geolocated panoramas, you may notice the pano bubble's horizon line is not parallel to the spring line of your dome. Use the tilt settings of the pano in order to align it with your dome's geometry.

For stills inside Uniview:

• In your content “Library” under the “Surface Locations” tab
• You can do this with any of your locations, or you can “Create a new surface location”, e.g. by clicking the “+”. 
• Select the location that you want, and you want to “Show properties.” On some systems, click the little notepad icon with a pencil on it. 
• There you’ll see all the different settings, and you should play around with those numbers, like altitude and azimuth to tweak the final appearance.  However, the main one you want is the “Panorama” settings.  There’s a setting for “Day Image” and “Night Image.” 
• For TRAPPIST, for example, set one or both to one of these images:  labeled and unlabeled  respectively.  Make sure the file path is correct.  For some reason, some versions always omit the “C:” at the beginning of the path. 
• Then you just need to set “Coverage Min” and “Coverage Max” to -90, and 90, respectively. 
• Save it, and then whenever you go to “Sky Mode” for that location, you will be able to show that panorama.  
• Note that for Digital Sky, we actually move the 360 image slightly higher, so you're actually a little lower than the center of the image, and you can see more of the image on the dome.  If you desire to do that, it might be more complicated, but might be worth it, especially for some images.  You may also want to figure out a way to move the image around to view different vantage points.  Also, if your system can't play videos in this mode, you can still take frame captures and import stills from the 360 videos using this method.  If you need help with doing that, simply let us know.
• Simply drag and drop the desired video or image into your display window.
• Select "spherical" from the pop up window.
• Just add ".360" between file name and file type.  For instance: "coolNASAstuff.360.png" or "coolNASAstuff.360.mpg
• The file then can be played either through the Digitalis media browser on the remote control, or from the media tab if you have Universal Console. 
• The operator can then re-orient the image or video on the fly using either the Xbox controller or the Universal Console. 
• It is also possible to write a script which sets the system to a particular lat/lon at a specific time. For an example script, see this member resource .
• Simply open the file using the dedicated 360-pro-player.
• Select Panorama conversion.

For Shira Universe users 1. Simply browse and open the file using the Media Manager . 2. Video or image dimension should be 2:1 rate to dedicate automatically. (for example  8192x4096) 3. If not 2:1 ratio please resize it using ffmpeg for videos.

For Shira Player users 1. Simply move video files to defined Fulldome path, Image files to panorama path. 2. Video or image dimension should be 2:1 rate to dedicate automatically. (for example 8192x4096) 3. If not 2:1 ratio please resize it using ffmpeg for videos.

As always, we welcome feedback, bug reports, reporting broken links, examples/instructions for other planetarium systems, tips, tricks, etc. Just  email us .

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View From Space: NASA Shares Astronaut POV Of Eclipse From International Space Station

Y esterday, millions of people across the United States shared a very special moment together. For the first time since 2017, a total solar eclipse was visible in multiple states. Even those who only got a partial solar eclipse were blown away by the beauty of this celestial event. As amazing as both of these experiences were, it seems that the astronauts who witnessed the eclipse from space has us all beat on the most unique view.

Unlike those of us back on Earth, these NASA astronauts weren’t able to look toward the sun. Instead, they were able to view the shadow the moon left as it made its way across the sun. This view is much different from the other viral videos showing off the eclipse, but it’s just as incredible! NASA Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick captured some footage of the moment.

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In the video, the International Space Station (ISS) is stationed around 260 miles above southeastern Canada. But their view is of New York. Little did folks in that area know that, as they gazed up at the moon-covered sun, astronauts were looking down toward their shadowed-covered state!

No matter your view of the eclipse yesterday, one thing is for sure: Celestial events like these are such a fun way to unify folks from all across the country!

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