NASA Releases World Viewer 432
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."
Celestia (Score:5, Interesting)
For those of you who like this sort of software, check out Celestia [shatters.net]. It is a 3D space simulator, and lets you visit objects in our solar system and a bunch of stars. It's really amazing, and it's open source! My sister uses it for teaching astronomy to the neighborhood kids in their home-schooling class.
Re:Already slow (Score:5, Interesting)
This site has some absolutely stunning still shots of earth. Available as several hundred K JPGs, 1-2 meg JPGs, and up to 30 meg TIFFs.
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Big brother (Score:3, Interesting)
Hope my thick black hair and beard'd consume all the light rays and reflect nothing.
Similar Products (Score:3, Interesting)
For a high-res view but user-interface nightmare, GlobeXplorer [globexplorer.com] has free and subscription imagery online that incorporates aerial photography for less than 1 meter resolution (like way zoomed in.)
Of course, what roxorz is that the NASA prog is free. At least for now!
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Celestia and World Viewer (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:A free version of Keyhole? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:C# And DirectX... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:BEWARE - Way too proprietary! (Score:2, Interesting)
You laugh, but Keyhole 2 Nv [keyhole.com] has a Mars dataset.
Re:Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:3, Interesting)
N. Korea? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Celestia - try Stellarium (Score:1, Interesting)
http://stellarium.free.fr/ [stellarium.free.fr]
It gives you a photo-realistic sky from any position on earth, plus the ability to zoom in on planets and nebulas, show coordinate grids, etc. The CVS version even has constellation art.
Re:A threat to our security? (Score:3, Interesting)
If you were planning some kind of ground based attack you really wouldn't get any use from the map provided in the link above. Sure you'd get a general picture of where the whitehouse is located (its one of the white blobs for those who don't know), but you certainly couldn't make any plans for storming the grounds.
Now you've done it. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:WE SLASHDOTTED NASA (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Geostationary Satellite Server (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/tc_pages/tc_home.htm
Make sure you do full investigation of the site, there is so many features that I can't begin to list them. It is basically a clearing house for any imagery generated for forecasting. Tools to animate however you wish, etc. Seriously, spend some time to check it out....
EDONKEY link her.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Global Land Cover (Score:2, Interesting)
If one is interested in a global viewer with additional scientific value, the Global Land Cover Facility [landcover.org] has the Earth Science Data Interface [umd.edu] that allows one to browse Earth's surface from the perspective of many different satellites. It has imagery from the Landsats, Terra, Aqua and the Space Shuttle. For a true-color global satellite imagery set, check out the GeoCover NaturalVue [earthsat.com] at Earth Satellite Corproation [earthsat.com].
Re:It certainly must be comprehensive... (Score:2, Interesting)
Slashdotted already! (Score:2, Interesting)
We are sorry but the slashdoting of a 250MB file was a bit more than we had planned for. We will re-post this file later in the day or this evening once the initial rush cools off. Thank you for your patience.
Better lay off the downloads for a while guys.
Re:It certainly must be comprehensive... (Score:2, Interesting)
The initial download is NOTHING (Score:3, Interesting)
Earth3D (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Amazing... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Bittorrent throughput (Offtopic) (Score:2, Interesting)