Low Orbit

New: watch Saturn rise over its icy moons. Fly low over 30 worlds, from the Sun to Pluto, drawn live from real data. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple TV.

Sit back and travel through the solar system. Low Orbit flies itself across 30 worlds, from the Sun and Earth to Saturn's rings, a comet and the distant ice of Pluto.

Every view is drawn live on your iPhone or iPad from real images and maps made by spacecraft and satellites. Fly low over sunspots on the Sun, past Mount Everest and through the Grand Canyon. Cross the canyons of Mars, visit the Apollo landing sites and the great ringed basin of Mare Orientale on the Moon, circle Jupiter and Saturn, and continue out to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. From their moons, watch the giant planets rise over the horizon: Saturn over Mimas, Tethys and Dione, Uranus over Miranda and Neptune over Triton.

See where every planet is right now in a live, true-to-scale view of the solar system, take the Grand Tour from beyond Pluto to the Sun, retrace the journeys of Voyager 1 and 2, and watch famous comets as they appeared in the night sky.

Let the full tour run on its own, or pick a world in Settings. Labels and short descriptions name the places you pass. Choose views of the real data alone, or enhanced scenes that add details such as haze and plumes. An optional soundtrack, with music chosen for each world, plays during the flight.

Tap the screen to show the controls: pause, skip between places, turn labels and descriptions on or off, or open Settings. Swipe left or right to move to the next or previous place. With a hardware keyboard, the arrow keys and space bar work too.

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Apple TV. Everything is included: the tour runs offline, with no account, ads or in-app purchases.

Low Orbit doesn't collect any data. Image and data credits are in Settings. Low Orbit is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, ESA, JAXA, NOAA, USGS or any other space or science agency.