Earth Space Lab – interactive 3D animations 🌍

Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's rotation

The Earth's orbit around the Sun

What does the Earth's orbit around the Sun look like?

Seasons

What induces the seasons? How high is the sun over the year in different latitudes? And how would the situation change when the Earth's axis had a different slope?

Solar Time

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What is the Solar Time and how long is the daytime at different places on the Earth?

Time zones

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What time is currently in different cities on the Earth? View an interactive map!

The Moon, the Eclipse and Tides

Moon phases

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How do the moon phases that we can see from the Earth originate?

Solar and Lunar eclipses

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Explore the mechanism of the Solar and Lunar eclipse! Why does the eclipse not occur every month?

Future eclipses

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When will the solar or lunar eclipse occur in the future, and where will it be observable?

Tidal phenomena

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Where on the Earth does the high tide and low tide occur?

Solar System

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Take an interactive "walk" through the Solar system.

Distances and Dimensions

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Can you imagine what are the distances between the planets and what dimensions the planets have? Experience a map application that will present these enormous distances and dimensions in a familiar environment.

About App

The app Earth Space Lab is designed especially for teaching the topic of the Earth as a planet at grammar or elementary schools (geography, physics). The app consists of individual learning objects that can be used independently.

This app was created by Václav Černík ([email protected]) and it's based on his diploma thesis at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in 2017. Any comments can be sent to e-mail [email protected].

Special thanks:

RNDr. Marek Křížek, Ph.D. – supervisor of the diploma thesis
RNDr. Jitka Houfková, Ph.D. – opponent of the diploma thesis

Translations:

Polish – Andrzej Batorski (edukator.pl)
Spanish – Mgr. Lenka Formanová (my colleague from Gymnázium Žďár nad Sázavou)
French and Italian – Mgr. Eva Straková (my colleague from Gymnázium Žďár nad Sázavou)

Thank you!

Credits:

numbers - "Školní atlas světa" (Kartografie Praha, 2004), "Velká encyklopedie vesmíru" (Josip Kleczek, Academia, Praha, 2002)
textures of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon (James Hastings-Trew, free license)
textures of space (Jerome Etienne, license MIT)
fonts Roboto, Roboto Slab (Google Inc., licence Apache 2.0)
JavaScript and CSS plugins:
- normalize.css (v5.0.0, Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal, license MIT)
- jQuery (1.11.3, The jQuery Foundation, license MIT)
- jQuery Mobile (1.4.5, The jQuery Foundation, license MIT)
- three.js (r84, three.js authors, license MIT)
- Two.js (v0.6.0, Jono Brandel, volná license)
- API Mapy.cz (4.11, Seznam.cz, a. s.)

Background image (c) Can Stock Photo / onyxprj