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Welcome to Celestia
THe freee space simulation that lets you explore our univers in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X
Homepage: http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
CELESTIA SCREENSHOT GALLERY
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/gallery.html
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| A view of Earth from far out in space. | A closeup of the space shuttle Discovery in orbit over Florida; this shot demonstrates Celestia's virtual texture feature for extremely high resolution mapping of planets. |
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| Looking down at Mars's tiny moon Phobos and the giant Valles Marineris rift valley. | The 1989 flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2--last stop before leaving the solar system. |
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| Saturn and its rings. Dark shadows cast by the rings are visible in the top hemisphere of Saturn. | Jupiter and its large moon Europa. The surface of Europa is mostly water ice and full of cracks created by tidal stresses. |
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| The recently discovered extrasolar planet Rho Cancri e, one of a system of at least four planets. Rho Cancri b is visible just to the right of e. | The orbits of a number of main belt asteroids (in brown) plotted togeter with major planet orbits (in blue |