Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Take a trip to our solar system’s red planet–now in immersive 360 video. You’ll see the surface of Mars as documented by NASA space missions: actual high-resolution imagery gathered by orbiters, stitched together and visualized in VR in OpenSpace, an open source interactive data visualization software designed to dynamically portray the entire known universe that powers presentations in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Fly through Valles Marineris and the caldera of Olympus Mons, visit the frozen water of the North Polar Ice Cap, and learn about the future of Mars exploration.
#360 #vr #mars #360virtualtour #spaceexploration #datavisualization
For live programs in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, visit amnh.org/calendar.
Producer
Lee Bucknell
VR/360 Director
Deion Desir
Scientific Advisors
Jackie Faherty & Brian Abbott
Music
“New Frontiers” by Stephen Packe (PRS) / Warner/Chappell Production Music
“Investigation” by Stephen Packe (PRS) / Warner/Chappell Production Music
OpenSpace is funded in part by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
OpenSpace is funded in part by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.
© American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum.
Take a trip to our solar system’s red planet–now in immersive 360 video. You’ll see the surface of Mars as documented by NASA space missions: actual high-resolution imagery gathered by orbiters, stitched together and visualized in VR in OpenSpace, an open source interactive data visualization software designed to dynamically portray the entire known universe that powers presentations in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History. Fly through Valles Marineris and the caldera of Olympus Mons, visit the frozen water of the North Polar Ice Cap, and learn about the future of Mars exploration.
#360 #vr #mars #360virtualtour #spaceexploration #datavisualization
For live programs in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater, visit amnh.org/calendar.
Producer
Lee Bucknell
VR/360 Director
Deion Desir
Scientific Advisors
Jackie Faherty & Brian Abbott
Music
“New Frontiers” by Stephen Packe (PRS) / Warner/Chappell Production Music
“Investigation” by Stephen Packe (PRS) / Warner/Chappell Production Music
OpenSpace is funded in part by NASA under award No NNX16AB93A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
OpenSpace is funded in part by the Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), and the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.
© American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum.
