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The Earth is Square let us know NASA World Wind 0.4.1 has been released. A few days ago he also detailed the Moon and Mars layers for NWWJava. From the 0.4.1 announcement: "The World Wind Java SDK alpha 4 - version 0.4.1 is available. Download WWJ SDK 0.4 (Zip 6.5M) or try the java web start demo 0.4 from the NASA World Wind site. [...] WorldWind Java SDK home pages at NASA Learning Technologies and WorldWind Central." As usual, I copied related stories below.

Early last month the Bull's Ramble blog informs us South Africa now gets 10-m satellite imagery in NASA World Wind [several screenshots]. From the blog: "The data is from SPOT 5 provided by SpotImage and collected in 2005, it is currently only 10m resolution but looks gorgeous [...]" See also related stories below. Related to NWW, we also learn JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is using NWW to visualize data of their latest lunar explorer KAGUYA, making me wonder about the developments to their GLOBALBASE project. Update: 02/05 17:01 GMT by S : Here's a project called Africa@Home, which, similarly to SETI@Home, harness the crunching power of home computers: "The first application being developed for AFRICA@home is called MalariaControl.net. This application models the way malaria spreads in Africa and the potential impact that new anti-malarial drugs may have on the region." (via Kelly Lab blog)

The Earth Is Square reports that the new WorldWind Java 1.0 will be released at JavaOne. From their summary: "NASA World Wind provides 3-D virtual globe technology that you can put in your applications. It’s a visual component based on the JavaBeans™ component architecture, with an extensible API and a friendly user interface that you can easily enhance or even replace. It can be used as-is or highly customized. You can put one or more in your programs or your web pages. In a web page, you can control it with the JavaScript™ programming language. It’s as good as it sounds; it’s what the world has been waiting for."

Visit the Earth Is Square blog for more information.

A lot of World Wind news came out of the JavaOne conference last week, so I am going to summarize those here for one quick and easy source.

• JavaOne WorldWind Java Presentation Slides
  If you want to see what was presented at the NASA World Wind Java SDK 3D Earth in your Applications and Web Pages session, you can now view the power point file and see what was covered The power point also has several diagrams that explain some of the core features about WWJava.
• First Known Commercial Use of WWJava
  LandPrint.com is an interesting commercial enterprise, they are creating 3D models of the earth and make use of WWJava as the way the user selects what they want to have created.
• NASA World Wind Java Demo Applications and Applets
  List of live examples of WW usage
• NASA Presents Knowledge Planet at JavaOne Conference
  At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco, NASA developers showed that virtual globes are not only suited to explore geographic maps, but can also serve as rendering engines for other types of imagery.