Experiencing Space

Mercury VR


This Google Cardboard app allows you to travel to the planet Mercury and explore it's surface in VR. Select a landing site and then once you reach the surface you can explore by tilting you head left and right to change you direction of flight. Looking up and down will change your altitude and in the settings you can enable a head up display to help you navigate further.

The data for this app is derived from cartographically accurate global image mosaics prepared by the USGS Astrogeology Research Program for NASA.

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The data for this app is derived from cartographically accurate global image mosaics prepared by the USGS Astrogeology Research Program for NASA.

"MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 3, 2004. It returned to Earth for a gravity boost on August 2, 2005, and flew past Venus twice, in October 2006 and June 2007. The spacecraft uses the tug of Venus' gravity to resize and rotate its trajectory closer to Mercury's orbit."

"Three Mercury flybys mapped nearly the entire planet and imaged most of the areas unseen by Mariner 10."

"Combining MDIS (Mercury Dual Imaging System) images collected from these three MESSENGER flyby's with those from Mariner 10 data from the 1970s produced a global mosaic of Mercury covering ~97.72% of the planet's surface."


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