| 2004 started a new era in planetary exploration. | | | | VRPresents technology, especially designed for |
| Two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed | | | | this purpose, gives astronomy lovers a new |
| successfully on the surface of Mars and a short | | | | interesting way to introduce the planet. Now you |
| while later started to send lots of images and | | | | can just take a virtual tour of Mars. |
| other data. The rovers were designed to work | | | | High resolution panoramic images of Mars are |
| properly for only 90 days on the Martian surface | | | | quite difficult to view in many similar VR |
| but, believe it or not, they are still in a good health | | | | technologies, which one can notice even at |
| and do not seem to stop working. During over | | | | NASA's web sites, but VRPresents not only |
| 3-year period NASA has received a huge amount | | | | displays these panoramas warped correctly, but it |
| of data that are hard to present for the wider | | | | provides also a lot of other useful features that |
| public. The solution of this problem has been | | | | make learning scientific results easy and enjoyable. |
| provided by Sciterian Technologies. Its | | | | |