Shrinking Space: An Audio Tour of the Stars app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Dot 3 LTD
First release : 31 Oct 2015
App size: 9.96 Mb
Take a trip on foot through the solar system guided by scientists, engineers and astrophysicists working on ‘live’ missions in space.
Leave the Earth and Moon behind, wander in close to the Sun, swing out past Mars, and stride into the outer reaches of the solar system via Rosettas comet landing and Voyager 1 now in interstellar space...
Shrinking Space accompanies Mind’s Eye, an audio installation that brings art and science together to give you the opportunity to explore and understand the solar system via the voices of those most familiar with it.
• This audio tour reveals all the breaking news about the active missions in our solar system interspersed with historical and cultural references.
• It can be experienced at your own pace; spend ten minutes or two hours with the probes hurtling through space!
Learn more about your guides, the eminent scientists, engineers and astrophysics working across the world to solve the mysteries of our universe.
• Get involved and tell us where you think humanity’s adventures across our solar system will take us next...
• The app is free and employs beacon technology so it can react to your location.
Mind’s Eye, the audio tour of all the active emissions in the solar system can be experienced at Manchester Central Library as part of Manchester Science Festival, 22 – 31 October 2015 in the UK
“The effect is bewitching, like floating through space itself, with only the occasional transmission back to earth for company.” The Barefoot Technologist
The app has been developed by Shrinking Space in partnership with Dot3. Mind’s Eye has been made possible by support from the Arts Council England, Brighton Digital Festival, European Space Agency, NASA Goddard Space Centre and Little Atoms.
Shrinking Space curate and produce science and art projects. We like to make and profile work that encourages collaboration between science and creative arts, championing the respective sectors’ imagination, creativity and innovation.