World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

View Java based World Wind demos on our collection of demos.

For a quick summary of what World Wind is about see our pdf flyer.

Open Source
NASA has released World Wind as an open source program to improve its quality through peer review, maximize awareness and impact of NASA research, and increase dissemination of World Wind in support of NASA's mission: To inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.

NASA Learning Technologies
NASA Learning Technologies is a NASA R&D effort for the engineering of teaching tools that deliver NASA content in the most engaging and dynamic manner possible. NASA LT builds the pipeline and the delivery point for unencumbered access to the best data NASA has to provide.

NASA World Wind leverages Microsoft .NET technology for rapid development and to easily access open standards such as XML, WMS, and other graphics standards. Real-time 3D graphics are driven by DirectX allowing a wide base of compatibility with accelerated video hardware.

TerraServer-USA of Microsoft Research hosts USGS aerial photography and topographic maps found in NASA World Wind. (terraserver.microsoft.com)

The Java version of World Wind thanks EJ Technologies for their developer tools. (ej-technologies.com)