Sun, NASA demo open-source 3D earth software Video

Video description: At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Robert Brewin, Sun's CTO of\r\nsoftware, and NASA's Patrick Hogan show off a new open-source\r\ngeospatial browser that implements Java and incorporates NASA's\r\nvisualization technology. The new software also allows developers to\r\ncreate mashups.

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