NASA WORLD WIND
NASA World Wind view of Kuril earthquake The above screenshot is from World Wind 1.4 RC1 and shows the location of the 8.3 earthquake clearly, the information shown is from the relevant USGS web page using World Winds built in web browser. You can also see lots of smaller database war stories #4: nasa world wind patrick hogan of nasa world wind, an open source program that does many of the same things as google earth, uses both flat files and sql databases in his application. flat files are used for quick response on the client side, nasa world wind google earth is available for windows, macintosh & linux whereas world wind is still available only for windows (nasa is currently making plans for world wind 1.5. this version will be available for multiple platforms, including windows sony psp as a controller for nasa world wind zachetus from finland used the lua player script player for the sony psp to turn his psp into a nifty remote control for nasa world wind. the result is some very smooth maneuvering, as this demo shows: nasa's world wind giving google earth a run for its money! all across the globe by the click of the mouse! also super maps of saturn, the moon, even a deep space viewer! wow is all i can say. nasa has out done itself with this one, i can't believe this hasn't been covered more on digg nasa world wind remote psp operation world wind is an application developed by nasa for use on computers running microsoft windows. the program overlays nasa satellite imagery and united states geological survey aerial photography on a 3d model of the earth, moon and mars. nasa world wind v1.3.5 nasa world wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth nasa world wind world wind is an open source project, that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth. it uses landsat satellite imagery and shuttle radar topography mission data, as well as sever onmars high resolution mars imagery available in nasa world wind credits: jpl/caltech/usgs/asu/nasa/msss. here are some images from the cydonia region, a popular area for conspiracy theorists. worldwind://goto martian pyramid worldwind://goto mars face (looks like a cyberman to me) worldwind://goto short news: kml timestamp support for iphototogoogleearth, nasa the earth is square lists what's new in the soon-to-be-released nasa world wind 1.4 beta. impressively quickly, it sounds like kml importer will gain timestamp support, while wms support gets an upgrade. nww also seems to be working
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