You may download
YOUR OWN 'Desktop Earth' freeware at these sites:
* Windows users
go to CodeFromThe70s.org at: http://codefromthe70s.org/desktopearth.asp
* Mac users go
to The Register at: http://downloads.theregister.co.uk/Mac/Graphics/desktopearth-mac.html
or MacUser at: http://downloadsnew.pcpro.co.uk/MacUser/Graphics/Graphics2.html
For a nominal
cost get 'DesktopEarth3D' at
SubRosaSoft.com at: http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=35&products_id=68
Includes:
Your choice of views of the earth - from a list of high resolution
maps of the earth. Select the view from the city of your choice
- using the in built database of cities to specify an exact location
of your choice. Real time sunlight projection - so you can view
what part of the earth is in daylight, with city light images
on the dark side of our world. Real time cloud maps - regular
updates on real life images of the earth's cloud cover. Live
pictures of the sun - superimposed pictures live from the SOHO
observatory. Simulated moon phases - renderings complete with
the current phase. Automatic desktop wallpaper - of live images
of our planet. 3D Screensaver - of rotating globe
RELATED LINKS:
* THE NINE PLANETS - A Multimedia Tour
of the Solar System by Bill Arnett
Earth Page - http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html
Home Page - http://www.nineplanets.org/nineplanets.html#toc
* WIKIPEDIA - Earth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
* GOOGLE EARTH - http://earth.google.com
* GOOGLE MARS - http://www.google.com/mars
* SOHO OBSERVATORY - http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov * SOHO,
an acronym for "SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory",
is a space-based telescope that takes images of the Sun. It was
launched on December 2, 1995.
* NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasa_gen
* ECLIPSE - http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEmono/TSE2006/TSE2006.html
* PERSPECTIVE