Microsoft and NASA Team Up to Take You on a Tour of MarsVisitors to Kennedy Space Center will be able to take a mixed reality tour of the planet this summer.
ByNina Zipkin•
While NASA likely won'tsend astronauts to Marsuntil the 2030s, the agency teamed up with Microsoft to give people on Earth a sense of what it would be like to explore the red planet for themselves, thanks toa new exhibitionopening this summer at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
With Destination: Mars, visitors can put on Microsoft'sHoloLensmixed reality headsets and take a 3-D interactive tour led by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Curiosity Mars Rover driver Erisa Hines. The tour will showcase actual images captured by the Rover, allowing the users to feel as if they are exploring the areas of the planet where the Rover has been.
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The exhibit will utilize OnSight, HoloLens technology developed by Microsoft and scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to help the Curiosity team make decisions about where the Rover should go next.
