NASA Releases World Viewer 432
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from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.
from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.
Klatoo55 writes "Nasa has released a comprehensive world viewing tool that allows you to zoom from planetary resolution down to where you can pick out individual streets. Really cool, but it needs a good internet connection and a decent graphics card. There's all sorts of interesting features, such as the ability to tilt your view for a flight-sim like experience and a data display feature that shows current natural disasters, political boundaries, weather patterns, and landmarks on the Earth's surface, all while providing a dynamic satellite's eye view of the planet."
Chalk another one up for Neil Stepehenson. (Score:3, Insightful)
"YOU ARE HERE."
It certainly must be comprehensive... (Score:4, Insightful)
What a perfect (and missed) opportunity for NASA to use BitTorrent [bittorrent.com] instead of a huge zip file. Ah well.
Re:Takes a hefty chunk of hardware (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:1, Insightful)
And I doubt any terrorist is going to bother with a sophisticated GPS-guided missile when a simple truck will do.
Nice troll.
Re:Bastards... (Score:2, Insightful)
Snow Crash reference (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Can we.. (Score:2, Insightful)
World Wind requires DirectX 9b and the
I know it would have been a hog anyway, but I don't think they did themselves any favours on the download size.
Re:Commercial site (free usage) (Score:2, Insightful)
Big Bro (Score:1, Insightful)