Many folks would like to see us back on the Moon and developing its resources.

Sunday, April 11, 2004

When Do We Go Back To The Moon?: "With all this talk about unknown craters, the following freeware program might be handy:
'Virtual Moon Atlas' by Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley. It is available at http://astrosurf.com/avl/UK_index.html
and features the a 3D real time display of the moon (including lighting conditions), but you can also set an arbitrary date to display. It contains an extensive database of features including all landing sites (Apollo, Surveyor, etc.). It also contains >1000 pictures of formations from the 'Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon'.
It supports OpenGL for graphics performance (but doesn't require it). About a dozen languages (apart from English) are supported via language packs.
All those features take up some space, so it's a rather big download (about 31 Mb)
Sorry, the program runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP only."

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