Neatly Organize Data Packets In Satellite Insight
Satellite Insight (Free) by Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a puzzle game released by two NASA websites to generate interest in the GOES-R satellite due for launch in 2015. The satellite will monitor terrestrial and solar weather and attempt to make predictions about solar storms.
This kind of stuff can get quite complicated, but the game itself is quite simple to play. There are six colored blocks each representing a different kind of data that the satellite will be able to detect.
These blocks will fall down onto a grid. When three or more blocks of the same color are in contact, tap them and then tap the satellite for the blocks (“data”) to be collected.
Initially, only two colors are used for the blocks, but as your score increases more colors are added and the blocks’ speed increases.
The game continues unabated for as long as you don’t have three columns reaching the very top. Warnings will be given for the first two columns that get too high and you are given two emergency buttons on the bottom left to help you out.
The red button will remove one of the tallest columns while the green button reshuffles all the blocks to the bottom. If you’re struggling to make matches and your emergency buttons aren’t available, you can also drag a finger up or down the columns to rearrange the blocks slightly.
Satellite Insight is not the most challenging puzzle game you’ll ever play, but it is nevertheless engaging and supports a good cause so I suggest you download it.
