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View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop

Posted by samzenpus on from the explore-from-your-seat dept.

TheBeansprout writes "You can now view the moon in 3D With NASA World Wind with two sets of Clementine data and full placenames. "We have just digested the best of the images, so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution" says Patrick Hogan, World Wind project manager at NASA Ames. "This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates," he adds. Download World Wind and view the quick tutorial or tour to interact, and there's some moon screenshots available too. A linux version of World Wind is slated for early 2006."

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  1. I wonder by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    if you could see the remains from the lunar landings. Of course, for the tin foil hat crowd, that would mean that the images were of Arizona.

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  2. Did they land on the moon? No... by Mesinjah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We should have images of the moon with left over equipment in view, such as rover vehicles and flags and Lunar modules. Why has nobody had any images of this stuff on the surface? They didn't go to the moon in the 60's lets face it. We would have had long range images from Earth showing all this crap still sitting there on the moon, but no... Nobody ever has seen that, just like this application doesn't see it. Without proof, it didn't happen!