These views may be of geographical features, man-made features such as roads and buildings, or abstract representations of demographic quantities such as population. Compared to a conventional globe, virtual globes have the additional capability of representing many different views of the surface of Earth. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position. “It also contains fun surprises, for example how the US used to be split by a shallow sea, the Appalachains used to be very tall mountains comparable to the Himalayas, and that Florida used to be submerged.NASA WorldWind, an open-source virtual globe with stars and advanced atmosphere & sunlight effectsĪ virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world.
“It is meant to spark fascination and hopefully respect for the scientists that work every day to better understand our world and its past,” he said. The map illustrates complex and interesting scientific data in an interactive and easy-to-use way so teachers, professors, and anyone else interested in the history and science of Earth can learn, Webster said. The map will even show users what dinosaurs used to live nearby in the area they search. When searching a location on the map, the website’s 3D rotatable globe will point out where on Earth that area was located million of years ago. “I built the interactive globe visualization and the geocoding and GPates integration myself so that people could plug in their own locations.” “My software ‘geocodes’ the user’s location and then uses (Scotese’s) models to run their location backwards in time,” Webster said. NYC on the Pangea supercontinent 240 million years ago.
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