Solar Walk iPhone_iPad app FULL REVIEW
# Discover Solar Walk: Your Gateway to Space Exploration
## Introduction
Hello, space enthusiasts! Today, we’re thrilled to introduce you to an extraordinary app that’s been captivating users for years—**Solar Walk**. Known for its immersive and educational features, this astronomy app offers a unique window into our solar system and beyond. Currently available for free for a limited time, now is the perfect opportunity to explore the cosmos from your device.
## Unleash Your Inner Astronomer with Solar Walk
### Time Manipulation: Journey Through Eras
One of the standout features of Solar Walk is its ability to manipulate time. By simply spinning a wheel, users can adjust the Earth’s time, allowing them to fast-forward or rewind through history. This feature lets you visualize how our planet looked in the past or might appear in the future. Imagine witnessing historical celestial events or predicting future astronomical phenomena—all at your fingertips!
### Planet Exploration: From Mars to Neptune
Solar Walk transforms your device into a telescope, offering a tour of our solar system’s planets. Explore Mars and see Curiosity rover’s current location. Zoom out to gaze at the vastness of Neptune, the largest planet in our solar system, complete with its satellites like Lisa and Proteus. The app’s real-time rendering adds depth, showing day and night cycles as they occur.
### Satellites and Space Stations: Man-Made Marvels
Beyond planets, Solar Walk highlights man-made marvels. Discover the Hubble Telescope in detail, from its structure to its contributions to astronomy. The app also features the International Space Station (ISS), showcasing its immense size—equivalent to a football field. This feature is perfect for those fascinated by human achievements in space.
### Comets and Constellations: Beyond the Ordinary
Venture into the realm of comets, such as Barley Comet, and explore zodiacal constellations. The app’s menu offers educational videos on topics like the ecliptic plane, enriching your understanding of celestial mechanics. While Sirius, the brightest star in our galaxy, is a must-see, its information button provides basic facts, leaving room for deeper exploration.
### Interactive Learning: Information at Your fingertips
Each planet and celestial body sports an “I” button, revealing fascinating facts with each click. The “Book” button offers comprehensive details on planets and comets, making Solar Walk not just a visual treat but also a learning tool. These features cater to both casual explorers and astronomy enthusiasts.
## Limitations: Where the Journey Continues
While Solar Walk is a remarkable app, it has its limitations. You can’t zoom into cities like Google Earth nor jump to specific historical dates, requiring manual scrolling. Additionally, only the Milky Way is visible, and you can’t click on individual stars for more info, leaving some aspects unexplored.
## Connectivity: Extend Your Exploration
Solar Walk enhances your experience by connecting to TV via Apple TV or AirPlay. Compatible with devices like iPhone 4S, 5, iPod Touch 5, and iPad 3 and newer, it offers flexibility in viewing. Check the help section for additional apps to explore.
## Conclusion: Join the Journey
Thank you for joining us on this cosmic adventure! We hope Solar Walk sparks your curiosity and deepens your appreciation of our universe. If you enjoyed this exploration, don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more videos. Your engagement fuels our passion to bring you more fascinating content.
Happy stargazing with Solar Walk! See you in the next video—wherever the cosmos takes us.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello guys and welcome to zone of Tex is Daniel and uh today I have a really really cool app to show you it's called solar walk you probably know this app because uh it's been in the app store for like the past 2 years I think but now it's free for a couple of days so this is really really cool okay so basically this app is an U astronomy app a science app and here you have the Earth here you have uh the localization function but it only well it doesn't work yeah it only shows you where you are uh on which planet you are and not the city which kind of sucks in my opinion but what is really cool about it is that uh whoops sorry for the camera is that you can change the time of your Earth just by spinning this wheel so that was the minutes uh the hours the date and even the year so you can basically you know fast forward through time and see how the Earth look like sorry looked like in uh in the past or even in the future which is pretty cool in my opinion whoops I just want to stop this Whoa stop stop stop stop stop okay here we go I can zoom in even read a couple of cities but again this is not Google Earth so you cannot uh you cannot uh zoom in as much as you want so these are the cities as you can see let's zoom out a bit now what else can you do with this app well you can search for planets in this solar system which is pretty cool as well so let's check out I know Mars and Mars has a surprise for you I don't know if you can see it but here it is this is Curiosity on Mars which is pretty cool so you can see where uh curiosity is on Mars live which again is amazing in my opinion then you can also search again for all uh planets and even comets also asteroids in our solar system which again is pretty cool as well now let's check out Neptune this is how it looks like Neptune is the biggest planet in our solar system it looks really cool you can even uh see its satellites which uh in this case are Lisa and Proteus so it's really cool you can even see your axis so the paths now what else you can zoom out as much as you want you can even zoom out of the Galaxy and now you can see the Milky Way galaxy but unfortunately this is the only G Galaxy you can see so you just cannot um go through other galaxies unfortunately and uh now let's go to another planet and again another disadvantage of this app is that you cannot click an individual star because uh it won't take you to that store so you know it's pretty cool but not you know it's not that amazing because the only thing that you have in this app is basically your own solar system so that's all now um let's go to our solar system that's the Sun and this is yeah this is Neptune now let's go to DWF planets and asteroids so these are uh satellite satellites sorry basically some of them but not all of them whoo this one looks interesting whoo this looks like an egg whoo I never I never knew this one existed it's pretty cool again this one looks exactly like an egg Angry Birds maybe who knows okay let's uh check something else you can also check for comets which again is pretty cool so uh these are this is a comet it's called barley I think that's the way you pronounce it now what I haven't showed you about this app is that you can click the I button which stands for information you can click this did you know and it tells you some different uh you know facts about the planet you're uh you're viewing and every time you click this button it will show you a different uh a different fact which is again pretty cool as well now if you click this uh this button the book button it gives you general information about the Comet or the planet that you U viewing which again is is really cool in my opinion but I know I think the best um the best uh feature of this of this app is that you can scroll to time which is amazing in my opinion but what I don't like about this app is that you cannot go to a particular time in the past so let's say if I want to go to 16 uh year 16 which is a long way in the past I have to just scroll down to year 16 which uh would take me about I don't know few minutes to do that which is you know which is not that great now uh you can also check uh satellites in our solar system which uh again is amazing I'm just going to lock focus on my camera here we go so you can check for satellites as well so let's check for Hubble so this is the Hubble satellite uh sorry I'm just going to yeah here we go just a second sorry I'm recording with my iPad CU I do not have a uh camera fortunately anyway uh this is the hobble telescope this is how it looks like you can even zoom in and see all of the details of the Hubble telescope uh oh and everything you see in this app is rendered in real time so uh as you see the Earth here is darker meaning that it's night and this is in real time and when you go here it's day so again this is in real time okay what else um well I forgot to show you that if you click the I button again you have the exact same buttons on each of the planets and even telescopes so it's pretty cool that you can um read certain information about it tips again so yeah it's pretty cool then uh you can also check the ISS now ISS stands for International Space Station and it's the biggest space station on Earth which is Hu huge I mean it's really huge so for example this has a size of a football field honestly it really has did you know so the uh 52 no not that one uh anyway you can read this these facts if you want to I read here that this one the ISS is as big as a football field including uh the place where you sit I don't know how you how you call them but it's as big as an entire football field uh so yeah it's really huge I don't know if I can zoom in well I can but not as much as I wanted to anyway you can also look for geography so Moon Mars let's go to Moon let's go to these are craters by the way uh blacket and this is the blacket crater now unfortunately it's nighttime so you cannot see much of it so let's go through time and uh yeah this is the Dark Side of the Moon unfortunately no it's not Transformers but yeah it's the Dark Side of the Moon and you cannot see anything there uh so sorry about that and you can also check out Stars which is pretty cool so uh Sirius is the brightest star in um our galaxy yeah this is actually true um I'm going to demonstrate how the way you can see this uh the star on the sky at night I have a nap for that yeah of course but uh you know there's no way you could U miss it because it's the brightest star in our galaxy and again if you click the ey it tells you some um O's so here just tells you some figures because um obviously it has no facts to tell you fortunately I mean it could tell you that it's the brightest star in the galaxy but it doesn't so you have to take my word for that and this is the menu uh you could click this oray and it repositions um the planet in movies let's see let's check out uh zodiac uh zodiacal constellations I have no idea how to pronounce that zodiacal constellations where are they located the on its own orbital plane the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun is called the ecliptic the okay you got the idea sorry so you got the idea you have different movies you could watch you're not a lot uh but they're pretty cool and um educational to watch you have this uh settings panel and yes you do have a 3D modee um if you have glasses but unfortunately I do not have um Canan s red I think yeah can red glasses at all I only have magenta green glasses so um yeah that kind of sucks and you can also connect uh this uh app to your TV by using an Apple TV so yes this app supports airplay on the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 so only those devices support uh airplan unfortunately and of course the iPod Touch 5 the iPad 3 and newer devices and if you click help it uh it gives you some different apps for um the iPhone which you can check out and even buy from the App Store okay so that was basically it so uh thank you guys for watching this video be sure to like it if you like it also be sure to comment leave me a comment because I will answer all of your comments subscribe to my channel for more videos because this motivates me on making more videos for you guys because by the way in the past few days I didn't have views at all I only had like 40 views per video which is which is awful so uh please guys uh subscribe if you if you like my videos and um you know see you in the next video and um as always cheers a oh hehello guys and welcome to zone of Tex is Daniel and uh today I have a really really cool app to show you it's called solar walk you probably know this app because uh it's been in the app store for like the past 2 years I think but now it's free for a couple of days so this is really really cool okay so basically this app is an U astronomy app a science app and here you have the Earth here you have uh the localization function but it only well it doesn't work yeah it only shows you where you are uh on which planet you are and not the city which kind of sucks in my opinion but what is really cool about it is that uh whoops sorry for the camera is that you can change the time of your Earth just by spinning this wheel so that was the minutes uh the hours the date and even the year so you can basically you know fast forward through time and see how the Earth look like sorry looked like in uh in the past or even in the future which is pretty cool in my opinion whoops I just want to stop this Whoa stop stop stop stop stop okay here we go I can zoom in even read a couple of cities but again this is not Google Earth so you cannot uh you cannot uh zoom in as much as you want so these are the cities as you can see let's zoom out a bit now what else can you do with this app well you can search for planets in this solar system which is pretty cool as well so let's check out I know Mars and Mars has a surprise for you I don't know if you can see it but here it is this is Curiosity on Mars which is pretty cool so you can see where uh curiosity is on Mars live which again is amazing in my opinion then you can also search again for all uh planets and even comets also asteroids in our solar system which again is pretty cool as well now let's check out Neptune this is how it looks like Neptune is the biggest planet in our solar system it looks really cool you can even uh see its satellites which uh in this case are Lisa and Proteus so it's really cool you can even see your axis so the paths now what else you can zoom out as much as you want you can even zoom out of the Galaxy and now you can see the Milky Way galaxy but unfortunately this is the only G Galaxy you can see so you just cannot um go through other galaxies unfortunately and uh now let's go to another planet and again another disadvantage of this app is that you cannot click an individual star because uh it won't take you to that store so you know it's pretty cool but not you know it's not that amazing because the only thing that you have in this app is basically your own solar system so that's all now um let's go to our solar system that's the Sun and this is yeah this is Neptune now let's go to DWF planets and asteroids so these are uh satellite satellites sorry basically some of them but not all of them whoo this one looks interesting whoo this looks like an egg whoo I never I never knew this one existed it's pretty cool again this one looks exactly like an egg Angry Birds maybe who knows okay let's uh check something else you can also check for comets which again is pretty cool so uh these are this is a comet it's called barley I think that's the way you pronounce it now what I haven't showed you about this app is that you can click the I button which stands for information you can click this did you know and it tells you some different uh you know facts about the planet you're uh you're viewing and every time you click this button it will show you a different uh a different fact which is again pretty cool as well now if you click this uh this button the book button it gives you general information about the Comet or the planet that you U viewing which again is is really cool in my opinion but I know I think the best um the best uh feature of this of this app is that you can scroll to time which is amazing in my opinion but what I don't like about this app is that you cannot go to a particular time in the past so let's say if I want to go to 16 uh year 16 which is a long way in the past I have to just scroll down to year 16 which uh would take me about I don't know few minutes to do that which is you know which is not that great now uh you can also check uh satellites in our solar system which uh again is amazing I'm just going to lock focus on my camera here we go so you can check for satellites as well so let's check for Hubble so this is the Hubble satellite uh sorry I'm just going to yeah here we go just a second sorry I'm recording with my iPad CU I do not have a uh camera fortunately anyway uh this is the hobble telescope this is how it looks like you can even zoom in and see all of the details of the Hubble telescope uh oh and everything you see in this app is rendered in real time so uh as you see the Earth here is darker meaning that it's night and this is in real time and when you go here it's day so again this is in real time okay what else um well I forgot to show you that if you click the I button again you have the exact same buttons on each of the planets and even telescopes so it's pretty cool that you can um read certain information about it tips again so yeah it's pretty cool then uh you can also check the ISS now ISS stands for International Space Station and it's the biggest space station on Earth which is Hu huge I mean it's really huge so for example this has a size of a football field honestly it really has did you know so the uh 52 no not that one uh anyway you can read this these facts if you want to I read here that this one the ISS is as big as a football field including uh the place where you sit I don't know how you how you call them but it's as big as an entire football field uh so yeah it's really huge I don't know if I can zoom in well I can but not as much as I wanted to anyway you can also look for geography so Moon Mars let's go to Moon let's go to these are craters by the way uh blacket and this is the blacket crater now unfortunately it's nighttime so you cannot see much of it so let's go through time and uh yeah this is the Dark Side of the Moon unfortunately no it's not Transformers but yeah it's the Dark Side of the Moon and you cannot see anything there uh so sorry about that and you can also check out Stars which is pretty cool so uh Sirius is the brightest star in um our galaxy yeah this is actually true um I'm going to demonstrate how the way you can see this uh the star on the sky at night I have a nap for that yeah of course but uh you know there's no way you could U miss it because it's the brightest star in our galaxy and again if you click the ey it tells you some um O's so here just tells you some figures because um obviously it has no facts to tell you fortunately I mean it could tell you that it's the brightest star in the galaxy but it doesn't so you have to take my word for that and this is the menu uh you could click this oray and it repositions um the planet in movies let's see let's check out uh zodiac uh zodiacal constellations I have no idea how to pronounce that zodiacal constellations where are they located the on its own orbital plane the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun is called the ecliptic the okay you got the idea sorry so you got the idea you have different movies you could watch you're not a lot uh but they're pretty cool and um educational to watch you have this uh settings panel and yes you do have a 3D modee um if you have glasses but unfortunately I do not have um Canan s red I think yeah can red glasses at all I only have magenta green glasses so um yeah that kind of sucks and you can also connect uh this uh app to your TV by using an Apple TV so yes this app supports airplay on the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 so only those devices support uh airplan unfortunately and of course the iPod Touch 5 the iPad 3 and newer devices and if you click help it uh it gives you some different apps for um the iPhone which you can check out and even buy from the App Store okay so that was basically it so uh thank you guys for watching this video be sure to like it if you like it also be sure to comment leave me a comment because I will answer all of your comments subscribe to my channel for more videos because this motivates me on making more videos for you guys because by the way in the past few days I didn't have views at all I only had like 40 views per video which is which is awful so uh please guys uh subscribe if you if you like my videos and um you know see you in the next video and um as always cheers a oh he\n"