NASA World Wind Features 2
The NASA world wind provides some features that are the unique specialty of it. No other similar product has so many useful features of which the users can make use. Some of these features, which are very useful for the viewers, are given bellow.
The globe:This is a feature through which, the viewers can get the information about the climatic and the environmental factors around the globe. These may include the thing as the temperatures, rains, clouds, etc. Not only this, they can also get this data for the previous days also.
This shows all the environmental factors directly on the virtual globe on the screen, and therefore the viewers can learn and compare these factors at the different locations on the globe.
The borders of the countries and states (for US):These boundaries enable viewers to differentiate between the countries. Therefore, they can be useful for the viewers. However, there is an option that, you can select whether view them on the globe or not
As the views of the NASA world wind contain the geographical features and the political boundaries, you can see whether the geographical features have played some role in deciding the boundaries.
Names of the places:The NASA world also has the data containing the names of the countries, cities, towns, and for some of the places it has the historical names and references, too. These names are displayed on the screen and upon the image. When the viewers are at a higher zoom level and therefore the views would be containing more area, only the names of the important places are displayed.
Therefore, there is not much crowding of these names on the screen. When the viewers zoom on the image and the area under it reduces, the names of the less important places too start showing up. This system makes it possible to provide the viewers the names of number of small and unimportant places.
Visual tools:The features of the NASA world wind also includes the data as the latitude, longitude lines for the images of the globe and, in addition to this, it also shows the coordinates of the different places. Moreover than these things the visual tools also has many different tools, as guides for the viewers.
They can be displayed when any of the different views or features of the NASA world wind are on. Moreover, It is completely in the hands of the viewers to choose whether, they want these tools to be displayed on the images, or not.
Landmark set:This is one of the most useful features of the NASA world wind. Through this feature, the NASA world provides the viewers the 3D views or models of the different important structures on the globe. These can be any type of landmark whether historical, political, geographical, or manmade marvels. Therefore, the viewers can experience the sight of these places by just sitting at the home in front of the internet.
For some places, the 3D models may not be available. However, the NASA world wind displays these places as markers on the images.
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