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Cosmographia Changelog

What's new in Cosmographia 1.4.0

Mar 22, 2012
  • New Solar System gallery screen for quickly navigating to planets, moons and asteroids
  • Planetary atlas: labels for surface features of planets and moons
  • Detailed 3D model of the asteroid Vesta
  • Trajectory and information about the newly discovered near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14
  • Added switch to select between metric and Imperial/US units
  • New distance measuring tool: choose any two objects and display the distance between them and their relative speed

New in Cosmographia 1.3.0 (Nov 24, 2011)

  • Properties panel with data about each object in the simulation.
  • Beautiful, high detail models of asteroids and small moons (Phobos, Phoebe, Eros, and Itokawa)
  • Improved Milky Way map
  • Updated object description text
  • Added satellite collision add-on
  • Improved Mars and Mercury surface maps
  • Added atmosphere for Mars
  • Polished user interface

New in Cosmographia 1.2.1 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • Fixed crashes on systems with Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPUs (occurred when viewing Voyager 2)
  • Made planet labels clickable
  • Added higher resolution map of Mercury
  • Added support for recording 1080p video
  • Updated in-app help and information pages

New in Cosmographia 1.2.0 (Sep 9, 2011)

  • Complete Voyager mission to the outer planets
  • Geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus
  • All graphics settings saved and stored
  • Viewpoint URLs that can be saved then activated from a web browser
  • In-app news and announcements
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed blank planets on Intel GMA 3100 GPUs
  • Added local copies of Earth and Moon textures so their surfaces are shown even when an internet connection is unavailable

New in Cosmographia 1.1.0 (Aug 17, 2011)

  • Different high-resolution Earth maps for each month of the year
  • Added the complete Dawn mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres
  • Added P4, the newly discovered moon of Pluto
  • Added Earth-impacting asteroid 2008 TC3
  • Show reticle indicating field of view at high zoom factors
  • Extended text information about Solar System bodies
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed missing data files error when running on Japanese versions of Mac OS
  • Corrected keyboard focus problems when switching tasks
  • Worked around problem with star rendering on Radeon