Unity Powers NASA Virtual Mars Rover Experience

NASA’s virtual Mars rover experience was developed with Unity. It will debut online via the Unity Web Player in conjunction with the landing of the most advanced rover ever sent to Mars. 

Martian fans can help NASA test drive a new 3D interactive experience that will allow the public to follow along with Curiosity’s discoveries on Mars. Using Unity, NASA is pushing new limits by rendering high-resolution terrain maps of Gale Crater, Curiosity’s landing site, collected from Mars orbiters. A 3D “virtual rover” version of Curiosity will follow the path of the real rover as it makes discoveries.

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