Playground | Prasanna Vadivelu

PLAYGROUND / INTERACTIVE EXPERIMENTS · BUILT BY SMART ROUTE

Worlds worth
getting lost in.

Start on the Moon. Take a rover across Mars.
Then see where your curiosity takes you.
Most of them began as my daughter’s ideas.

Made to be explored.

MOON & MARS

An Apollo astronaut and lunar rover in the Taurus–Littrow valley

LUNAR EXPLORATIONSURFACE REFERENCE

SELENE / MOON EXPLORATION

Moon.

Grey dust. Black sky. Billions of years beneath your wheels. Explore a lunar valley, listen to its story, then drive a real patch mapped from orbit.

Explore the Moon EXPEDITION + LROC TERRAIN SURVEY / KEYBOARD + TOUCH

Rocky Martian terrain below the rim of Jezero crater

ROVER EXPEDITIONSURFACE REFERENCE

REDSHIFT / MARS EXPLORATION

Mars.

Leave a little Earth behind. Drive a six-wheel rover across a Martian crater, collect three samples, and find your way home.

Explore Mars KEYBOARD + TOUCH / A FICTIONAL EXPEDITION

More ways to play.

BUILD · RIDE · DISCOVER

A schoolgirl cycling through the cherry-blossom town; hover to watch her ride

AFTER SCHOOL

The long way home.

A bicycle. A whole town. No need to hurry.

RIDE · EXPLORE · TAKE THE LONG WAY

Saturn’s textured globe and intricate rings against a field of stars

EIGHT WORLDS. ONE STAR.

Solar System.

A little perspective on everything.

CHOOSE A PLANET · ORBIT · EXPLORE

33 Raptor engines; hover to see the inner 13 steer together

Flight lab · Play now

Launch to the Moon.

Launch. Follow the booster home. Plot a course to the Moon.

MISSION CONTROL · LAUNCH · LUNAR EXPLORATION

Vavilov crater photographed during the Artemis II flyby

MOON & BEYOND / 10 ENCOUNTERS

Follow your curiosity.

Meet the Apollo crew. Inspect a lunar lander. Watch a docking. Get close to a comet.

Open the field atlas

A tiny girl cheering beside a giant pencil that has just sketched a cat

SKETCHBOOK / 345 THINGS TO DRAW

Type something. Watch it drawn.

A name comes out in handwriting. A cat, a rocket or an owl comes out the way a real person once doodled it. Someone small is watching.

Pick up the pencil

A glossy watermelon jelly slice, pulled out of shape by an unseen hand

WATERMELON JELLY / SOFT THINGS

Pull it. Slice it. Send in the ninja.

A glossy watermelon jelly. Stretch it by hand, dice it with a knife, or drop a whole fruit and let a very small ninja punch, kick and slash it to pieces.

Have a go

NEW / STUDY 04144 LEVELS
THE LONG WAY DOWN

A TELEVISION WORLD I WANTED TO EXPLORE

Silo 18

Some places stay in my head long after the credits. This is my reconstruction of Silo 18: the immense stairwell, the rooms behind its galleries, and the machinery that keeps it alive.