New ways to explore space, corrections that make the science clearer, and notes about how the atlas keeps improving. These are verified release milestones, not a list of every code change.
For learners
Start by exploring.
Each release links directly to a lesson or interactive model. You don't need to understand software versions to use the new activities.
For educators
See what has changed in the explanation.
Review the teaching note and scientific limitations before reusing a model or a number in class.
For maintainers
Trace the release to the code.
Each entry links to its recorded commits. These links identify changes, not a claim that each commit was a separately numbered release.
Release history
Improvements in context
Newest first. Grouped around meaningful changes to the experience, not individual refactoring commits.
Navigation and accessibility
Find related lessons and sources more easily
The shared footer has been reorganized so its science explanation, learning pathways, project resources and release history stay aligned and readable on phones and larger screens.
For learners
Follow the Solar System, Earth & Moon, and Deep Space links from the bottom of any lesson without hunting through a dense block of notes.
For educators
Model limitations, primary learning sources and project updates are now directly accessible from a labelled and keyboard-navigable footer.
Replaced an unstructured one-line footer and a grid placement rule on a non-grid child with one semantic component. Added a 28-page shared-footer hierarchy and route regression gate, alongside 320/390/1280px browser checks.
Search and motion controls respond to your choices
Keyboard search now closes without unexpected navigation; the solar-system model respects reduced-motion preferences, and shared quizzes provide assistive-technology feedback.
For learners
Search topics with a keyboard and follow your intended selection. Motion-sensitive visitors start with a still 3D solar-system scene and may choose to resume it.
For educators
Keyboard navigation, a reduced-motion default and quiz status announcements make common classroom interactions more predictable. Screen-reader behavior still benefits from device-specific testing.
Resolved global Enter interception, late search-index loading, hidden-tab WebGL frame scheduling, and live-region semantics. Added a dedicated browser-flow/DOM regression gate and a prioritized code-quality audit.
Explore temperature, tides and honest distance scales
New controls reveal signed planetary temperatures, changing lunar–solar alignment, and differences between physical AU distances and compressed model coordinates.
For learners
Compare two planets’ temperatures, vary the Moon’s alignment, or follow a planet across two distance rulers.
For educators
Read surface-vs-atmosphere temperature caveats and explain why the tide-force diagram is not a local tide forecast.
Space Atlas is an evolving educational reference. Some diagrams are scale-accurate, while others are deliberately simplified so their relationships can be seen. Each lesson states what is observed, estimated, reconstructed or illustrated. A correction in this log does not imply that an earlier visualization was scientifically equivalent to the new one.
Historical entries are reconstructed from identifiable changes in the source history. Dates reflect documented changes, not retroactive version numbering. Automated site checks verify public pages and critical files; they are not measures of improved test scores, Google indexing or learning outcomes.
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