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NASA World Wind

"Wow" is the only word I need to describe NASA's World Wind. This FREE program combines topographical maps, satellite photos, aerial photos, and managed Direct3D to give you a pretty awesome 3D view of the entire globe. While I'm sure there are some legitimate uses of this software, it's fun to just "fly" around take a look at sites around town and around the world. You can download World Wind here and try it out for yourself.

If reality is anything like Hollywood, just press the "enhance" button several times and you'll be able to see me waving at you in the picture below.

Posted by JoshC at October 30, 2004 11:45 PM

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I have heard negative comments about World Wind such as that you can only view black and white images of the USA and nothing else for the server used for the full detail, such as viewing the earth in colour is always 'down' is that correct ??

I'd get World Wind downloaded, but do not want to waste time on some other NASA failure that may explode at anytime.

Posted by: Richard at April 6, 2005 09:06 AM

I'm just new to it as I just downloaded it from the web. I do have have a problem as I can not save any of the screenshots. Do I need to have a subscription in order to save the screenshots?

Posted by: Gregory at May 13, 2005 01:03 PM

how can i get a closer view with this program - i can establish fuzzy images at about 6000m but i ralyy want to get clearer images - please help

billy

Posted by: Billy at May 18, 2005 02:04 AM