Discovery.com: Take a Virtual Trip to the Moon | Linux Today

Discovery.com: Take a Virtual Trip to the Moon

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 31, 2005

“While NASA expects to get humans back to the Moon by 2018,
they’ve also just made it possible for anyone to go lunar
barnstorming right now — so long as you have a good computer
and a broadband Internet connection.

“NASA has mated 1.8 million images beamed back from the lunar
Clementine spacecraft with lunar elevation data available to users
of its free, 3-D World Wind software, which previously only allowed
people to virtually fly around and explore Earth in unprecedented
ways…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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