{"id":895,"date":"2014-12-01T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/?p=895"},"modified":"2015-05-20T13:49:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:49:32","slug":"alpha-13-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universesandbox.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/alpha-13-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha 13 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpha 13 is just around the corner.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the features we’re excited to introduce in this next update:<\/p>\n

1. Planetary Cutaways<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Cutaways can now be seen for any planetary body, which offers a nice visual representation of its material composition. Below you can see the cutaway for Jupiter’s moon,\u00a0Europa.\"Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Cutaway\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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2. Mars Climate\u00a0Simulation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our climate scientist has been working on expanding the climate model beyond Earth. Mars brings a whole new set of challenges. It’s not just a matter of plugging in Mars’s values into the existing calculations; there are fundamental differences which change the basic parameters of the model. For example, unlike Earth, so much carbon dioxide in Mars’ atmosphere freezes out every year that the atmospheric pressure drops and rises seasonally.\"Universe-Sandbox-\u00b2-Mars-Climate\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Collision Rewrite<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Major improvements to the underlying physics will bring performance boosts and\u00a0better collisions more of the time,\u00a0as well as pave the way for some future improvements and features. Take a look behind the scenes of collisions in Universe Sandbox \u00b2 in the video below, made by Thomas, our numerical physicist.
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