Users of Apple’s iPhone now have access to all the features they have come to expect from NASA’s own website on a daily basis. The American space institution is now offering a free iPhone app that will allow users to stay up to date on space news and the latest reports from interstellar exploration efforts from anywhere they can use their mobile devices. NASA’s aim is to engage both American citizens and those abroad with fascinating and visually intriguing imagery to get more people behind the agency’s efforts to explore and understand outer space. Using both iPhone and iPod Touch, users can now explore the offerings of one of the world’s foremost space research institutions.
With the app, users will be granted access to NASA’s Image of the Day and Astronomy Picture of the Day, as well as being given easy connection with NASA TV videos, and various other agency feeds including Twitter. In addition, users will be allowed to filter the information they receive so as to be informed only about the missions they are most concerned with such as Solar System events or NASA launches. Saving pictures directly to the mobile devices is promised to be a breeze and the space agency believes the app will raise interest worldwide, bringing more people behind its missions.