NASA Releases World Viewer

Posted by michael on Friday September 24, 2004 @05:04AM 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."

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Warning: Uses and installs .NET !!! by frovingslosh · 2004-09-24 05:53 · Score: 1, Flamebait

World Wind requires DirectX 9b and the .NET Runtime environment to be installed. These have been included in the World Wind installer
Bastarts! Why in the world include .NET ???

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