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Who has not been dazzled and intrigued when lifting his gaze to the celestial vault on a clear, dark night?
Top Five Virtual Sky Simulators | haha.nu - the lifestyle blogzine
Stellarium 0.11.2 is a stable version that introduces some new features and closes 47 bug and wishlist reports. A lot of work has been done on making translatable text that wasn't localized before. This includes most of the text used by the default plug-ins, landscapes, countries, script names and descriptions.
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Ogle Earth | Examining how internet mapping tools like Google Earth affect science and society.
For autocratic regimes, naming landmarks is both a perk and a tool — a cheap stab at immortality and a means to cement authority: In Syria, examples abound: The main highway through Damascus is named after the late despot Hafez al-Assad, father to the current one. In the coastal town of Latakia, a main street is called 8 Azar Avenue, named after the March 8, 1963 coup d’état that brought the Ba’ath Party to power, soon headed by the al-Assad clan. (March = Azar = آذار)
View geoscience data, satellite imagery, remote sensing data, geology maps, geophysical data, and many other earth data sets of interest to geoscientists.
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NASA World Wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Washington DC, Wikipedia point layer - icons link to Wikipedia articles World Wind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license) virtual globe developed by NASA and the open source community for use on personal computers . Old versions need Microsoft Windows but the more recent Java version, World Wind Java , is cross platform and provides a suite of demo apps .Google Earth Hacks - Fun stuff for Google Earth.
Google Earth is a free product made available by Google that lets you view the entire earth in 3D, but has enough detail that you can zoom in and view your own house!
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Over the years we've seen a variety of tools to help display graphs in Google Earth, such as GE-Graph and some 3D World Oil Consumption charts .
NASA World Wind , an open-source virtual globe with stars and advanced atmosphere & sunlight effects A virtual globe is a 3D software model or representation of the Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position.
Virtual globe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Read About the Erdapfel at Welt.deIntroduction to Virtual Globes
Virtual Globes
The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization.