More detailed Mars maps in WWT

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More detailed Mars maps in WWT

Post #1by selden » 15.07.2010, 19:23

Microsoft's World Wide Telescope project has been updated to incorporate higher resolution 3D maps of Mars.

For information about the update, see http://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/fea ... scope.html

For WWT itself, see http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx
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Re: More detailed Mars maps in WWT

Post #2by John Van Vliet » 16.07.2010, 21:19

for "http://www.worldwidetelescope.org" to work MS Siverlight MUST be installed

that nix's all linux and mac ( as far as i know the mac siverlight is still the version 1 ) and there is NO working Linux sivlerlight

for those of us boycotting silverlight ... ( even on Windows)

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Re: More detailed Mars maps in WWT

Post #3by selden » 16.07.2010, 21:27

There's a Web interface that's supposed to work for Mac and Linux at
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/webclient/
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Re: More detailed Mars maps in WWT

Post #4by Epimetheus » 09.08.2010, 04:18

selden wrote:Microsoft's World Wide Telescope project has been updated to incorporate higher resolution 3D maps of Mars.

For information about the update, see http://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/fea ... scope.html

For WWT itself, see http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx

Ahhh, thanks seldon!
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Re: More detailed Mars maps in WWT

Post #5by John Van Vliet » 09.08.2010, 07:30

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