Earth Space Lab – interactive 3D animations 🌍

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

Revolution of the Earth

What does Earth's orbit around the Sun look like? What would a greater eccentricity of the track cause?

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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Can you explain what Solar time is and what is it derived from? What is the length of the bright day at different places on Earth?

Time zones

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

The Moon, 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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When there is an eclipse of the Sun or Moon, what is the Moon phase? And why there is not eclipse occurring every time of that stage? Explore the mechanism of the solar and lunar eclipse!

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 does the high tide and low tide occur on the Earth? Explore a 3D animation of this phenomenon!

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 distances between the planets are and what dimensions do they 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 application consists of individual learning objects that can be used independently. Some learning objects are external - they are only referred to.

This app was created by Václav Černík ([email protected]) as part of his diploma thesis at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in 2017 (supervisor RNDr. Marek Křížek, Ph.D.).

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

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