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dgs©
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{Posted this in Off Topic Observatory also, for increased traffic}
I haven't loaded it myself yet, but I just got this from NASA Tech Briefs...
NASA's "World Wind" computer program was originally designed to deliver
satellite images and data of Earth to the Internet. The program recently
has been expanded to "transport" Web users to almost anyplace on the Moon,
when they zoom in from a global view to closer pictures of our natural
satellite taken by the Clementine spacecraft in the 1990s.
The PC-compatible World Wind program is available free of charge via Internet
download. Computer users from more than 100 nations have acquired the free
World Wind program.
To download World Wind, visit: WorldWind
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- david
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LivingNDixie
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Neat!
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Preston
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Lunt LS60T/Ha 60mm f/8.33 (on order)
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revans
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I tried out the program and it is really impressive. Tremendous 3D views of the revolving lunar globe with very high resolution. It is very memory intensive though...
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trever
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Loc: North Alabama
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I also downloaded the Mars addition. Pretty nice...
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Trever
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Anonymous
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I find it to be a nice piece of software except for the big black circle at the lunar north pole, because I enjoy observing the nose bleed section of the Moon.
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