JPL Apps

Looking to explore your favorite space images in striking detail or take a virtual trip to Mars? JPL has apps for that. We're taking all the best JPL science, images and more to bring you applications that'll keep you informed and entertained no matter where you are.

Desktop Apps
Eyes on the Earth

View recent data of Earth's vital signs, follow NASA satellites and learn how they collect critical data about Earth's atmosphere, land and oceans, and see spectacular views of our home planet from space with this desktop app and visualization tool.

› Download for desktop
Eyes on the Solar System

Explore the cosmos from your computer with this 3-D solar system full of real NASA mission data. Hop on an asteroid. Fly with NASA's Voyager spacecraft. See the entire solar system moving in real time. You control space and time in this desktop app and visualization tool.

› Download for desktop
Eyes on Exoplanets

This desktop app and visualization tool allows you to explore a 3-D simulation, populated from real spacecraft data, of all planets that have been discovered around other stars.

› Download for desktop
Deep Space Network Now

To keep in contact with the spacecraft exploring our solar system and the universe beyond, JPL operates a network of large radio antennas called the DSN. This online app will let you see what the DSN is up to right now, which antennas are in use, which spacecraft are talking to us, how quickly data is being received, and how long it takes a signal take to get there and back.

› View in browser

Images and Photos
Space Images

Discover, share and explore stunning images and videos of space from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- now available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices.

› Download for iPhone
› Download for iPad
› Download for Android devices
Images of Change

Human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters are rapidly altering the face of our planet. Now, with NASA's Images of Change iPad application, users can get an interactive before-and-after view of these changes.

› Download for Apple devices

Games and Interactives
NASA's Earth Now

View stunning visualizations of climate change data from NASA's Earth satellites on a 3-D model of Earth that can be rotated and manipulated for an all-encompassing view of our world's vital stats. Choose from extensive visual datamaps including sea level, ozone, carbon dioxide and watervapor to monitor and study climate patterns across the planet.

› Download for Apple devices
› Download for Android devices
Spacecraft 3D

Get an up-close-and-personal look at a variety of NASA spacecraft designed to study the Earth, Mars and the universe, using this augmented reality application.

› Download for Apple devices
› Download for Android devices
› Download the AR Target(PDF)
iSeeChange Tracker

Help NASA scientists and iSeeChange investigate how climate change affects your community! Pick an investigation scientists are actively researching and add sightings from your own backyard, neighborhood or city. Each sighting will be paired with NASA satellite and weather data to help us identify ground level changes that correlate with bigger picture we’re seeing from space!

› Download for Apple devices
Rescue 406

A distress call from an emergency beacon goes off somewhere in the world. Satellites orbiting high above Earth receive the signal and relay the person's location to search and rescue crews on the ground. In this SciJinks mobile game, you will use the information from these satellites to direct the rescue effort.

› Download for Apple devices
Offset

This educational app from NASA's Space Place gets players fighting against global warming in a game that's part pong, part resource-management, and 100 percent retro. While you play, you'll learn how the global carbon cycle works, about different sources of carbon, and about the ways alternative energy and reforestation can help offset those sources.

› Download for Apple devices
NASA Be A Martian

The Be A Martian app lets you experience Mars as if you were there! Take part in discovery as it happens and join a community of worldwide explorers! This app offers exciting ways to take part in discovery and learn about NASA's Mars missions.

› Download for Android devices
› Download for Apple devices
› Download for Windows 8 devices
› Download for Windows Phone
Comet Quest

You're in the driver's seat as the Rosetta spacecraft begins its orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Take the controls to examine the comet up close, explore craters, cracks and jets on the comet's surface and learn more about the mysterious object all while earning points for your discoveries. Then continue your interactive lesson with factoids, resources and answers to common comet questions all built right into the app.

› Download for Apple devices
Satellite Insight

This game, based on NASA's GOES-R satellite series, which is designed to provide constant data and imagery on Earth's weather and even detect and track hurricanes, puts players in the hot seat, bundling identical blocks of data as they're collected by a virtual spacecraft.

› Download for Android devices
› Download for Apple devices

Missions
Mars Rover: Curiosity

Curiosity, NASA's biggest and most technologically advanced rover yet, touched down on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012 (PDT) on an ambitious mission to search for the building blocks of life. Explore this amazing rover, and learn about the tools that it is using to investigate the Martian world. App currently available on Windows 8 devices.

› Download for Windows 8 devices
Aquarius

Learn about NASA's Earth satellite mission to measure global sea surface salinity, a major factor of climate change. The Aquarius app features news updates and scientific data from the mission. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad Devices.

› Download for Apple devices
GRAIL

NASA's GRAIL mission is comprised of a pair of mirror-identical spacecraft to the Earth's Moon to perform precision gravity measurements. This app has specific information about the science and purpose of the GRAIL Mission, and features daily mission news updates, images of the spacecraft during assembly and testing, videos and 3D models of the spacecraft and moon.

› Download for Apple devices

News
Space Place Prime

A free NASA magazine app for kids, teachers, parents, space enthusiasts and everyone in between, Space Place Prime gathers some of the best and most recent web offerings from NASA, tapping into engrossing articles from The Space Place website, enlightening NASA videos, and daily images such as the Astronomy Picture of the Day and the NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day.

› Download for Apple devices
› Download for Android devices