Later this month, the NASA Learning Technologies program also will establish an international agreement to support use of the NASA World Wind software by schools and students from other countries. There are an estimated 10,000 daily users of World Wind. In addition to NASA data, World Wind is able to access public domain United States Geological Survey (USGS) aerial photography and topographic maps. Image right: Screenshot of Washington D.C. "NASA is working to establish more server capability to handle the heavy demand for data by users of the NASA World Wind program," Hogan said. NASA World Wind is delivering terabytes of global NASA satellite data that are a result of years of daily observations of precipitation, temperature, barometric pressure and much more.Ĭomputer users from more than 100 nations have acquired the free World Wind program via the Internet, though most users are from the United States. People can virtually "explore the world" using their personal computers equipped with the new program. "The software program will take you anywhere on the planet - inside Yosemite Valley, through the Grand Canyon or over the Himalayas," explained Hogan, who is in charge of World Wind's development. "Our servers are on fire," said Patrick Hogan, NASA's Learning Technologies program manager at NASA Ames Research Center, located in California's Silicon Valley. Image left: Screenshot of Hurricane Kate over the Atlantic Ocean using World Wind software. A NASA computer program that is able to zoom in from a global view of Earth to reveal regional 3D pictures of climate, elevation, vegetation and cities by population, has become a 'hot download' on the Internet.Īvailable free of charge, the PC-compatible program proved so popular in its first week on the Web, that 100,000 Internet users downloaded 'World Wind.' The NASA Landsat satellite image and elevation data server computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., received more than 1,000 requests for data per second from users seeking to visualize some of Earth's more interesting events, including wildfires and volcanoes, from the millions of images acquired by Landsat satellites during more than 30 years of flight.
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