Crustal thickness add-on released

This add-on is based on the new Crust 2.0 model.

See the Crustal thickness add-on page for more details.

Shoemaker-Levy impacts on Jupiter add-on released

This add-on displays the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacts on Jupiter.

See the Shoemaker-Levy impacts on Jupiter add-on page for more details.

Paleomaps add-on released

This add-on was made using images developed by Dr. Ron Blakey at the University of Northern Arizona.
The globes presented in this series show how Earth may have appeared over the last 600 million years (Ma). The global views were prepared from rectangular projections drawn at a resolution of 3000x1500 pixels for each of the 26 time slices (small files of the rectangular maps are also included). Topography was "cloned" from digital elevation maps of modern Earth from the USGS. Colors were adjusted to portray climate and vegetation for the given time and location. The modern Earth was also drawn in this manner using a color pallet derived from satellite images created by ARC Science of Loveland, Colorado.

See the Paleomaps add-on page for more details.

North American Geology add-on released

The USGS North American Tapestry illustrates the geological age of North America. Also included are the distributions of several major types of rock formations.

See the North American Geology add-on page for more details.

NOAA Data Buoys add-on released

This add-on displays NOAA National Data Buoy Center (http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/) buoy locations with links to individual web pages containing frequently updated weather and ocean data collected by the related station. The data was collected from NOAA's NowCoast web portal (http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/) and is NOT a complete inventory of the NDBC stations View a more complete (if not as current) list at http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/to_station.shtml.

See the NOAA Data Buoys add-on page for more details.

Heavenly bodies add-on released

This plugin adds the Sun and moon(s) according to the current world. It includes more than 15 moons and presets for Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

See the Heavenly bodies add-on page for more details.

Planetary Rings plug-in updated to v0.6

Added planet shadows.

See the Planetary Rings add-on page for more details.

Stocks plug-in released

This plug-in loads Stocks data from YAHOO! finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/) and displays the data on the World Wind globe.

See the Stocks add-on page for more details.

Sky Gradient updated to v0.4

Now detects the current world, loads the last selected preset for that world... or doesnt load at all if there is no .ini file for it. It will also try to insert itself just before the "Images" layer, or at least in second place - after the Starfield. So no more stars over the sky.

See the Sky Gradient add-on page for more details.

Planetary Rings plug-in updated to v0.5

It no longer shows moire and doesnt kill the grid lines.

See the Planetary Rings add-on page for more details.

Saturn add-on released

This addon includes Saturn, Patrick Murris's PlanetaryRings plugin, moons, feature names, and some physical properties of the rings.

See the Saturn add-on page for more details.

Planetary Rings plug-in updated to v0.4

Updated to turn itself off for Moons.

See the Planetary Rings add-on page for more details.

Planetary Rings plug-in released

This plugin adds rings around Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.

See the Planetary Rings add-on page for more details.

Castles add-on updated to v1.1

Added over 50 Swedish castle locations provided by Timmy Hedlund.

See the Castles add-on page for more details.

Mercury add-on released

The Mercury add-on adds another new world to World Wind. To view Mercury either double click the World Wind Mercury desktop icon or select Mercury in World Winds File menu. Note - Since Mariner 10 only photographed the western hemisphere, there is only imagery for half the planet.

See the Mercury add-on page for more details.

Zoom Extender released

Zoom Extender allows you to configure what combination of shift keys and mouse clicks are used to zoom in. It is especially designed for those without scroll wheels, making it difficult to zoom in and out. Originally inspired by Google Earth's double-click to zoom, it has expanded since then to become much more versatile.

See the Zoom Extender add-on page for more details.