Explore the Solar System on Foot with New iPhone App

By Nancy Atkinson - August 26, 2010 at 12:38 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Another new iPhone app for astronomy, and this one, called SpaceWalking combines a 3D scale model of the Solar System with location-based data from GPS satellites to place a virtual scale model of the Solar System in your neighborhood to explore. For more info, check out the

Spacewalking website

. If you're quick, follow the

@SpaceWalkingApp on Twitter

for a special deal.

Also, I have two of these apps to give away.

First two commentors who can answer this question correctly win: How far is Jupiter from the Sun?

Here's a link to a

3D Solar System

.