October 15, 1998:
GLOBE Visualizations Available in 3-D!
GLOBE is pleased to announce a new visualization tool which displays the Earth in 3-D! From the GLOBE Visualization site on the World Wide Web, you can now display GLOBE student data, and reference data, on a three-dimensional globe. By simply using the computer mouse, you can rotate the globe any direction or zoom in on a specific geographic point. This new feature, created with Virtual Reality Modeling Language, provides a more realistic image of the true shape of our planet than possible with flat, 2-dimensional maps.
The 3-D technology requires some special (but free) software and a computer with certain specifications. Click on "Visualizations" in the navigation bar on the GLOBE Web site to try out this new feature.