Day and night cycles now show improved light/shadow simulation on the terrain. When the user lands on the surface, the Lander is placed there. Several "points of interest" boulders have been added throughout the landscape, and the user may drive to them. The user interface now shows meters traversed and battery life remaining. The battery usage is NOT simulated according to real time scale. There are three additional rock types. Up to date paragraphs and images have been added to the information text shown during the roving experience.

The images are generated based on the cloudless Earth databases created by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from the MODIS instrument onboard the Terra satellite. The image of the Earth by night is based on nine months of observation by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. For further information and additional images, visit the NASA Earth Observatory site.

Outlines, boundaries, and names of constellations can be displayed, as well as names and Bayer/Flamsteed designations of stars brighter than a given threshold. A database of more than 500 deep-sky objects, including all the Messier objects and bright NGC objects can be plotted to a given magnitude. The ecliptic and celestial equator can be plotted, complete with co-ordinates.

To fulfill its mission as a screen saver, the sky map shifts position on the display every 10 minutes to avoid burning in those few components of the display which do not move as the Earth revolves.