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The personal computer (PC) -compatible World Wind program is available free of charge via Internet 'download.' Computer users from more than 100 nations have acquired the free World Wind program, though most users are from the United States. 'This leads to much greater engagement with, and by, the users and personalizes it for their own discovery.' In contrast, movies are not as engaging, or immersive, in that the user does not control them, Hogan observed.

'NASA World Wind allows users to explore their (computer) environment at will,' Hogan said.

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'Not only has Hogan's team produced new technology with World Wind, but they have done so as open source computer code, so it is free for all who would download it,' Leon added. That's what World Wind is like,' said Mark Leon, chief of the Education Division at NASA Ames. 'Imagine riding a magic carpet through the world and being able to zoom down to any point, or appear magically at any location. Its principal objective was to 'space-qualify' lightweight imaging sensors and component technologies for the next generation of Department of Defense spacecraft. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and NASA jointly sponsored the Deep Space Program Science Experiment that included the Clementine spacecraft. Launched in early 1994, Clementine took 1.8 million pictures of the lunar surface during a two-month orbit of the moon. No one has ever explored our moon in the 3-D interactive environment that World Wind creates,' noted Hogan. 'We have just digested the best of the Clementine images, so we can now deliver the moon at 66 feet (20 meters) of resolution,' said Patrick Hogan, manager of the World Wind Project Office at NASA Ames.

Users can see detailed 3-D pictures of the Earth's land surface, including its elevation and climate.

Computer programmers at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley originally designed the World Wind program to deliver satellite images and data of Earth to the Internet. The newly expanded NASA 'World Wind' computer program can 'transport' Web users to almost anyplace on the moon, when they zoom in from a global view to closer pictures of our natural satellite taken by the Clementine spacecraft in the 1990s. Internet users can now take virtual 3-D trips to nearly anyplace on the moon, thanks to a NASA program first designed to show aerial views of the Earth.

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NASA software zooms to nearly anywhere on moon Russian recovery forces pull the space travelers from the just-landed Soyuz capsule as dawn begins to break over the touchdown site in north-central Kazakhstan.

Stunning images of Saturn's moon Hyperion taken by the Cassini spacecraft show a surface dotted with craters and modified by some process, not yet understood, to create a strange, 'spongy' appearance, unlike the surface of any other moon around the ringed planet. Space shuttle program officials Friday held a news conference at the Johnson Space Center to provide a status report on efforts to understand and fix the external tank foam insulation problems and confirm that the next launch won't happen before May 2006. The spacecraft has collected cometary and interstellar particles for return to Earth. Stardust spacecraft recovery and science team members meet at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to rehearsed the steps that will be involved when recovering the comet-encountering spacecraft after its landing on Jan.

Once there, the tank will undergo modifications prior to being returned to Florida for a future launch. 120 is moved out of Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and loaded onto a barge for transport to the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. Scientists held this news conference on October 19 to discuss their investigations. NASA has used the Hubble Space Telescope for scientific observations of the Earth's moon in the search for important oxygen-bearing minerals - potential resources for human exploration. Wilma was packing winds of 175 miles an hour as a Category 5 storm when the station flew overhead. International Space Station cameras captured this incredible video of Hurricane Wilma and its well-defined eye from an altitude of 220 miles.

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Satellite imagery since June 1 has been compiled into this movie to track the 21 named storms as they formed and traveled, many making landfall. This 2005 Atlantic hurricane season has a been a record-breaker.

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