JPL's solar system simulator

[bodyn]

Anyone seen or used JPL's "Eyes on the Solar System"?  (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes/)

Its not as flexible and interactive as Universe Sandbox - web-only via a Unity3D plugin, no adding your own objects, not sure if it's actually simulating gravimetric effects, etc... - but it has a lot of NASA missions pre-configured and a ton of content like narrated tours, and lets you view in 3-D modes too.

[rv6abob]

Yes. I had this up while Curiosity landed on Mars and while I was watching NASA TV. It was quite cool. The way they had it set up was taking into account the delay in radio communication between Earth and Mars so it corresponded to what the people in the JPL control center were seeing on the Curiosity instrumentation readouts. Very nice application.

[vh]

i'ved used this for the curiosity landing too, you could pause, go backwards, speed up or slow down, and even watch the parts of the capsule containing the rover bring it to the surface. I have a few images of this i can dig up later.