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View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop
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."
Now I dont even have to move to the window to see the moon
...while we wait for Linux version, is anyone working on getting this stuff to Celestia? Would rock if the two programs could easily use the same data though.
The screenshots seem nice, but regrettably not really too much more impressive than what you can already do with Celestia. =(
This helps much. Now Aibo the robot dog can bark at the moon without exposing himself to the dangerously dirty and humid environment outside. Saves on the repair bill tremendously.
Mandatory Wikipedia link.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Of course they couldn't stay behind after Google released Google Moon but this looks way more promising...
Let me just say: Cool!!! (-9F, 451R, -23C, 250K on the average that is...)
I guess this means we still won't be able to see the landing sites in enough detail? Maybe someone with more knowledge can explain why we can't provide a higher resolution for these images if we can see celestial objects millions of light years away...
According to the Wiki FAQ anyone is encouraged to work on the port of the current version with some resources they have made available and the next version (January 2006) should be cross-platform.
It is indeed heartening to note that there is a plan to push out a Linux version, unlike Google which altogether seems to have forgotten the linux user.
What is even sadder about Google is that it being a Linux shop, having derived so much benefit from the existence of Linux, refuses to actually return anything to the user community.
the 22 CD ROMs from the Clementine project can be accessed from here
d im-mosaic-v1.0/
a tegory=hires
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/clem1-l-h-5-
(jpegs are in the browse directories)
or if you have not the got the bandwidth they are only 220 USD from
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cd-rom/web_store.cgi?c
now if only I could find a the above as a DVD torrent, hmmm
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I'm pretty sure the 20m per pixel resolution will put paid to that. I don't think any of the landers were more than 20m along any one side, so I doubt they'd show up. And if they did, it wouldn't be in any easily discernable form.
When you zoom in all the way, is it made of cheese?
Try it.
WorldWind ... Uranus ... Naah, too easy.
On se Internetz nobody noes your German.
You want the moon on a bloody stick?! :)
According to the developer they are planning to create a Java version for linux as well as the C#/DirectX version they have now:i nd-dev/2005-September/000736.html
.Net based apps (maybe not that far off? Wine DirectX already works for many modern games).
http://mail.worldwindcentral.com/pipermail/worldw
This is nuts! Trying to make one big complicated from work is hard enough, making two versions of it written in different languages is inexplicable! The only real reason hinted at is that Microsoft wouldn't like NASA using Mono for an official application. Does Microsoft really want NASA to use Java just to spite Mono?
Download the code for WorldWind and have a look, then consider porting it to Java/OpenGL/Java3D. Then consider just using Mono with OpenGL bindings. Or consider funding Wine so it supports
Somebody talk some sense into them. Or tell me why I'm wrong, either way someone has to sort this out otherwise it's going to be a massive waste of time and money.
I'm ranting, I know - can anyone else see how backward this is?
they are not finished yet photoshopping the phoney lander in!
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates,"
I think Neil Armstrong would have something to say about that.
liqbase
...is completely black! What a surprise! When you zoom in, there's nothing to see.
Move along now, nothing to see.
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silas
hobbit
"There is no dark side on the Moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark."
Quantum mechanics: the dreams that stuff is made of.
That's the real reason BillG named his O/S Windows! he knew some day we are gonna look at the screen and view the physical world, including the moon...
"... so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution ..."
"Lord Vader, is our conquest complete?"
"The moon is to be delivered into our hands tonight, my Master"
Odd choice of words there, but whatever. This is teh cool3st. Can't wait for the Linux version!
and there's some moon screenshots available too
So much for actually looking out the window to see what the moon looks like!
A goatse image on the Road Map page within 30minutes of the Slashdotting. You're getting slow dudes :p
I didn't mention in the article, but there is a partial clone of World Wind for Linux done by a community member.See the thread here for more info.
People can also join #worldwind on irc.freenode.net. That's probably the best way to get involved with developing and find out what's where.
And lastly...yes, Mars is on the way. Stay tuned.
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
For the last couple of months I have been checking obstinately if high-resolution data was finally available for my location - Utrecht, the Netherlands. But to no avail, I still have to manage with a measly 30m resolution. I can't quite see my house from up here!
I understood the general reason for it - You start with the large cities and work down from there. There is little reason to provide hires data of the Sahara.
But now we have been taken over by THE FRIGGIN' MOON! The data of that desolate celestial body is more accurate than the data of the Netherlands.
No Mac or GNU/Linux versions. it is based on DirectX and .Net :-S
I doubt the Americans have seen "The Mighty Boosh".
[O yes we have]
(O no you haven't)
British comedy, isn't that Monty Python? "Oh I really like Are you being served", etc, etc.
I enjoy listening to Pink Floyd while exploring the moon.
I have found that it is not made of cheese, it is made of pixels.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
It's called "looking up" folks!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
The so-called "Dark Side" of the Moon is actually dark! At least, stripes of it...
Nuffsaid
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Don't know about his cat, but Schroedinger is definitely dead.
I think it would be cool if the functionality of the two was merged. Just imagine have finished looking at our solar system, being able to come back to Earth and zoom into your house :)
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Just downloaded the source code and noticed that it was written in C# of all languages. I suppose it wouldn't have been any better had it been written in Objective-C. Looks like if we want a true multi-platform version, then we need need to port it to a true multi-platform language, such as C/++ or Java (propriety, but has VMs on most platforms).
It may just be easier to work out the architecture and just do a rewrite.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I'm always fascinated by tiny inconsistencies. For instance, in this picture of the dark side of the moon, there are a few areas that haven't been photographed. The areas are in relatively consistent patterns, where the sattelite's camera may have malfunctioned or the orbit didn't cover certain areas. All except for one. Check out the top right, on the left side of a large crater. It's an outlier, all by itself, smack in the middle of an interesting formation. Wouldn't they have tried to get that spot again, on a second go around? Why is it missing? And why isn't it part of a patern like the others?
"This is a first. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates," Perhaps it is because in all previous versions that myself and others ran that World Wind crashed?
That just wasn't him that came back!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Inignot: You and your third dimension.
Frylock: What about it?
Inignot: Oh, nothing, it's cute. We have five.
Err: Th... thousand.
Inignot: Yes, five thousand.
Err: Don't question it.
Frylock: Oh, yeah? Well, I only see two.
Inignot: Well, that sounds like a personal problem.
You must think in Russian.
That world wind is bloat ware... and that its 20 meters - too far away, I want to be able to see the flag :)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I've read this before. Mr. plagiarizing karma farmer.
l l%20have%20said%20%22We%20choose%20to%20go%20to%20 the%20weather%20balloon.%22%20
In fact, a google search for some key text reveals two postings to slashdot alone. http://www.google.com/search?q=he%20may%20as%20we
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
I was roaming around with that thing and zooming in on countries. Somehow I ended up in the middle east and roamed near israel. Looked around for Palestine... THERE is not such thing! According to NASA's map whatever is called Palestine just belongs to Jordan, the rest to israel :P
What does that tell you?
Google is hosting a nice site called moon.google.com that's similar to google maps. You can actually zoom in close and see detailed views of the moons construction.
Highly recommended
Don't anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it.
So, now we're getting mooned from our own computers? What will they show us next? Uranus?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
But not as much as a spoon...!
fud, notfud, yes, no, maybe
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Actually, in sparsely populated areas (like my home town in Greenland), the WW imagery is better than Google's.
Why all the different and unrelated names for each feature? This makes "World Wind" confusing to use at first...
Launches from the browser in Linux (386) and windows
http://www.antlersoft.com/demo3d/mars/index.html/