Blue Marble and more
...courtesy of NASA. Open-source project:
World WindWorld Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.
Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.
Map geography, weather, place names, national borders and other stuff. See all the
features here.
Download here (171MB... not bad considering this is
the whole world). Needs Windows, 2GB free drive space and a 3d card.
* Ray, 3/07/2005 02:53:00 PM
