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Download NASA World Wind - Comprehensive software that lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth, find locations, work with a compass and distance calculator, and learn about.
World Wind, an open source 3D interactive world viewer, was created by NASA's Learning Technologies project, and released in mid-2004. It is now developed by NASA staff and open source community developers. Sep 30, 2020 NASA World Wind 1.4.1 Alpha is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. Is NASA World Wind safe to download? We tested the file WorldWind1.4.1.alphaFull.exe with 24 antivirus programs and it turned out 100% clean. It's good practice to test any downloads from the Internet with trustworthy antivirus. NASA World Wind 1.4.1 Alpha on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from mapping without restrictions. NASA World Wind 1.4.1 Alpha is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
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World 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.
Downloading World Wind
NASA World Wind is available as a full install, or as an update to a previous release. You may use it under the terms of the NASA Open Source Agreement.
Download Source Code -- 2.8 MB
System Requirements
- Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
- Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
- 256 MB of RAM
- 3D Graphics Card
- nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra
- ATI Radeon 7500
- Intel Extreme Graphics 2
- DSL / Cable connection or faster
- 2 GB of disk space
Notes
World Wind benefits most from a video card with 3D acceleration. If you don't know whether your machine comes with one, it is likely to have one built in if the computer was purchased within the past two years. Here is a list of video cards that have been reported to work with World Wind.
World Wind requires that you have .NET runtime environment and DirectX installed. You can download .NET runtime environment and DirectX runtime.
Nasa World Wind Download For Mac
World Wind comes with data you can zoom into. After a certain point, World Wind will begin to download more images automatically. The servers hosting this information are very busy and may be unresponsive until we get the necessary infrastructure.
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World Wind is developed at NASA Ames Research Center by Chris Maxwell, Randy Kim, Tom Gaskins, Jessica Gan and project manager Patrick Hogan.