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NASA iPad App Ignores Important Solar System Objects and Missions

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 2, 2010
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New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free
“The app’s landing page features the solar system, where users can learn more about our neighborhood, the universe and NASA missions. The app also enables users to experience and search updated, higher resolution NASA Image of the Day and Astronomy Picture of the Day collections and agency videos on demand.”
Keith’s note: What’s missing from this picture on this iPad app’s “landing page”? (enlarge) Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta for starters. NASA has missions on their way to these worlds (Dawn and New Horizons). But it does show the ISS (which is not a planet or a moon). Whether you think Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta are planets or dwarf planets or something else, they are the destinations for major missions and deserve to be on this front page. Not to do so is to ignore a billion dollar’s worth of hardware and science. I wonder who reviews these apps prior to release?

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