Low Orbit
Apple TV · Native App

Low Orbit

A guided flight across the Solar System

Low Orbit flies itself on a slow, continuous tour of twenty-seven real worlds, from the craters of Mercury to the heart of Pluto. Every surface comes from NASA and ESA orbital imagery and elevation data and is drawn live on your Apple TV, with short notes on what you're looking at.

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Low Orbit over Io, Jupiter hanging in the sky above, with the volcano Pele labelled and a short description of Io's volcanism

Apple TV · Io, with Jupiter overhead

Saturn's bright cloud tops beneath the curve of its rings, with the equatorial jet and the Great Storm band labelled

Saturn · Storm band and rings

Mars from orbit, with Olympus Mons and the Tharsis Montes volcanoes labelled

Mars · Arrival over Tharsis

A low flight through Titan's orange haze over the dune fields near Selk crater

Titan · Selk and the Huygens site

Enceladus, bright white and fractured, with the south polar terrain and Cashmere Sulci labelled

Enceladus · An ocean world

A close pass over the lumpy surface of Phobos, with Stickney crater and Limtoc labelled

Phobos · Stickney crater

Pluto from above, with the bright heart of Tombaugh Regio labelled

Pluto · Arrival over the heart

Real data, flown live

Watch it, or learn from it

27
Twenty-seven worlds
Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars and its moons, Vesta, Ceres, the giant planets and their moons, Pluto and Charon
118
118 named sites
Canyons, volcanoes, impact basins, landing sites and ring crossings, each with its own flight path
DATA
Real orbital data
Built from NASA, ESA, JAXA and USGS imagery and elevation data, with every source credited in the app
LIVE
Rendered live in Metal
The terrain, sky and lighting are drawn in real time on your Apple TV
INFO
Labels and descriptions
Short, sourced notes on what you're seeing, which you can turn off for a clean view
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Real sky and spacecraft
The planets and moons in each world's sky, and landers set down at their actual landing sites
EYE
Enhanced or real data only
True colour and fine detail as your eye would see it, or only the measured images and elevation
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No data, no network
No account, no internet connection, and nothing leaves your Apple TV
Compatibility

For Apple TV 4K running tvOS 18 or later. Everything is done with the Siri Remote. Play/Pause pauses the tour, left and right go to the previous or next site, up and down turn descriptions and labels on and off, and Menu opens Settings, where you can tour every world or pick just one.Low Orbit keeps the Apple TV screensaver from starting while it flies. Your TV's own sleep timer is separate, so raise it in the TV's settings if you want to watch for a long time.

Credits

All imagery and elevation data are public-domain or openly licensed products of NASA, ESA, JAXA, USGS and their partner institutions; full credits are listed in the app under Settings › Credits & data sources.Low Orbit is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA, ESA, JAXA, USGS or any other space agency.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your Apple TV

Low Orbit collects no data of any kind. There's no account, no sign-in, no network access and no analytics or tracking. Your settings are stored only on your Apple TV. Read the full privacy policy.