The Lewis & Clark Trail feature worked, as did the Landmark toggle, the switch from orthographic to topographic renderings, and the Zoom function, so there is hope. No combination of settings could get the real-time weather maps to show up, nor did the Astrobiology Field Guide do anything at all, despite the cool name. More than half of those toolbar functions did not work, or were taking so long to render that we had to move on to other things-like sleep. Less cluttered than Google Earth, with a simple toolbar array of clickable icons that enlarge when you mouse over them, World Wind's promising interface belied too many problems. Unfortunately, it fell flatter than a collapsed playing-card house. ![]() ![]() NASA being the big name that it is, we expected its 3D global-imaging program to be made of sterner stuff.
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