Viewing Earth From Space

[moongirl]

An amazing site, choose your satellite and as much information as you want.

To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list below and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button. The satellite database is updated regularly but may not reflect the current position of satellites, such as the U.S. Space Shuttle, which maneuver frequently after reaching orbit.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html

. . .Where Credit Is Due
As in the example HTML above, when you link to a dynamic image, please link back to Earth and Moon Viewer so visitors to your page can see where the image came from and learn how to add such images to their own pages. If you neglect to provide this courtesy back-link, your premises may not be invaded by giant robot ants from Switzerland, but then you never know. . . .

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

Scientists with a sense of humour...

[moongirl]

And now... Viewing Space From Earth...with Google.
http://forums.cricketmx.com/viewtopic.php?p=78894#78894

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Cartes du Ciel - Sky Charts
A free program for Windows.
http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

Carte du Ciel ("Map of the Sky")
This article is about a star mapping project.
For the astronomy software with a similar name, see Cartes du Ciel.
was an international project to map the positions of millions of stars — that is to say, of all stars to the 11th or 12th magnitude. In English, the project was sometimes known as the Astrographic Chart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_du_Ciel

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World Wind 1.4
A free download...and yes, it is from NASA!!

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

Open Source
NASA has released World Wind as an open source program to improve its quality through peer review, maximize awareness and impact of NASA research, and increase dissemination of World Wind in support of NASA's mission: To inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

[moongirl]

Cities Of Earth 3D Screensaver 2.1

From the good people at Download.com, this 1.66MB free file for Windows is
syncronized to your computer clock to display the light on the image.
http://www.download.com/Cities-of-Earth ... 49849.html

Cities of Earth is a free beautiful 3D screensaver which shows biggest cities of our planet. Features: Aflame Sun, stars, 3D Earth model with highlighted cities. Many of cities with information about its population and country names. So it's a good educational content. The positions of all cities corresponds to its real world coordinates.Day gives place to a night and vice versa.Low CPU usage. Zoom in/zoom out: Use mouse wheel to move camera closer/farther. Camera Control: Use "up" and "down" arrow keys to control the vertical camera position (to look at Antarctica). Use "left" and "right" arrow keys to slow down or to speed up the camera rotation speed.

In version 2.1 you can disable the displaying of base cities and leave only additional cities on the Earth map.
http://www.download.com/Cities-of-Earth ... 49849.html