Moon 3D program??

I followed a NASA news release here because it said there was a program for users to view the moon in 3D. What I found was a set of files that had no clear explanation how to load, launch, and view the moon.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/new...5/05_56AR.html

I've downloaded the zip file, unbundled the files, now what??

Trying to run from Ubuntu, but even the run-demo.bash won't run.

Where is the moon viewing program and how do I get it to launch?

[heidtmare]

http://goworldwind.org/
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/index.html

NASA World Wind is an API for building your own spatial applications.
It did at one point have the capability to present the Moon(and Mars), but that capability slowly faded since it's a small development team and they couldn't focus on maintaining the code to support it.

You can still find tools that use old versions of World Wind. they may still have a moon viewer, like World Wind Geo.
Also you can get a copy of the old C# app:http://worldwindcentral.com/wiki/NAS..._Wind_Download that still has this capability i believe.

[frenchy]

can you please tell what WMS servers you use to display Moon and Mars ?
I tried to restore the Moon and Mars examples, attached, with no luck.

[frenchy]

Hi Martians !

I finally got Mars demo running with the official NASA WMS link (http://OnMars.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi), using old implementation (txs Pat!) and a bit of cooking on my own...
Code attached for those interested.
Works BUT i probably miss something with the Elevation part...(pressing the strechs buttons has no good effect..). Any help from WW gurus ?
Cheers

[frenchy]

Hi,
I did almost the same for the Moon example (using http://OnMoon.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi),
but cannot download much tiles from it (one or two tiles per layer and per level...)
Seem that the server is very slow, or crashes quite often...Has anyone got info on that ?

I figure out my posts should be in the 'Dev' part...it is possible to move them ?

Txs

[nlneilson]

You can use this to see if a tile request is valid:

layers/BasicTiledImageLayer.java
just below
url = tile.getResourceURL();
System.out.println("#567\n" + url);

Then in an IDE or dos box you can copy the request string into the address bar of a browser.

The thread was started here so that is OK. When the "New Posts" is clicked it will find all unread posts in all of the forum.

Or you could do a "Search" in the forum to see if the topic is covered elsewhere.
Or you could start a new thread in Development Help.

The "Search" is very helpful.

[frenchy]

Yes I did that and controlled URLs through a browser. Some tiles come up, some others don't and send back a wms.cgi file (?).
But though my app, surfing around the moon, tiles don't come up at all, or very few.
I tried to extend the TIMEOUT variables, with no luck.

[frenchy]

Okay, i got it working replacing the former worlwind24 server call, by a onmoon server call... All moon layers come up, all but the Apollo ones, which are said to be special (in the capabilities xml)
Btw, i have the same problem for elevations, as for mars, it seems that necessary files/resources/server calls are absent.
I can send code to people interested, if any.

Cheers