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Published online 1 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060828-14
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The Moon in your hands
NASA has developed a virtual Moon, much like Google Earth, that lets users zoom around three-dimensional visualizations of the terrain. Declan Butler talks to Patrick Hogan, manager of NASA's World Wind project, about the software.
World Wind Moon, released in October 2005, was made off the back of World Wind Earth. Was it hard to make the leap off this planet?
It was a piece of cake really.
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