Research tools that take us into space
The OpenSpace research project opens up the universe to the public.
The project has created the OpenSpace software. It collects a wealth of information on planetary orbits, planets, simulation data, space weather, satellite images, data from robots that have landed on planets and much more.
The information comes from a variety of sources, and the platform makes it possible to study phenomena with widely differing scales in time and space. The project is led from Visualization Center C and Linköping University, by Professor Anders Ynnerman. He is joined by an international team of researchers and developers from the University of Utah, New York University, the American Museum of Natural History and NASA. The team is also assisted by a number of LiU students, future civil engineers in media technology, who are doing their degree projects with one of the project’s partners. OpenSpace is primarily a research tool, but has also been widely used for spectacular public visualizations of space, such as dome shows and in VR goggles. The software is free to use for anyone who wants to.
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