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Discover the Wonders! Fly to Neptune with a stop-over on Saturn to explore its mysterious rings. Experience the power of a thunder and lightning storm deep in the atmosphere on Jupiter. See what the Magellan space probe saw as it first orbited Venus. Interplanetary flight and planetary sciences come to life in this fascinating, scientifically accurate simulation of our Solar System.

Plan Your Mission! Plot a new course from the Navigation room and monitor your progress from the Bridge. Recreate famous past missions and experience them from a first-person perspective. Learn about basic flight dynamics, fuel consumption, gravitational effects, andorbital mechanics. Discover the secrets of the planets by launching probes to find out about planetary surfaces or perform simulated experiments in magnetospherics, atmospherics, vulcanology, and seismology.

With Solar System Explorer you're the navigator, pilot, researcher, and scientist aboard mankind's most advanced spacecraft. Engage!


Windows 95 users can order online!
(You must be connected to the Internet and have either Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator)



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Solar System Explorer requires Macintosh System 7 or higher with a 68030 or above, 256-color display, 8MB Memory, double-speed CD-ROM, and mouse; or Windows 3.1 or higher with a 486 or above, SVGA display, 8MB Memory, double-speed CD-ROM, and mouse.