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    NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an...
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    1975, NASA managed a program for the United States Department of Energy and the United States Department of Interior to develop utility-scale wind turbines...
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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) releases some software (such as NASA World Wind and FRET) under this license. Publication of open...
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    Globe 98, followed by Cosmi's 3D World Atlas in 1999. The first widely publicized online virtual globes were NASA WorldWind (released in mid-2004) and Google...
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    more than 40 wind tunnels to study and improve aircraft and spacecraft safety, performance, and efficiency. Between 1958 and 1963, when NASA (the successor...
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    Landsat image of the Tabun-Khara-Obo crater; screen capture from NASA World Wind. Oblique Landsat image of Tabun-Khara-Obo crater draped over digital...
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    draped over digital elevation data (x10 vertical exaggeration), Connolly Basin crater (circular depression in centre); screen capture from NASA World Wind...
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    service is a joint effort of USGS, Microsoft and HP. 2003: NASA World Wind, NASA World Wind Released. An open virtual globe that loads data from distributed...
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    has become a standard for global raster datasets, such as Celestia, NASA World Wind, the USGS Astrogeology Research Program, and Natural Earth, because...
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  • Thumbnail for Goat Paddock crater
    Paddock crater (circular feature in centre); screen capture from the NASA World Wind program The crater can be seen at the centre of this image Harms J...
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