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Anyone know of an online globe?

Asked by Zyx (4170points) October 17th, 2010

I may just be googling for the wrong term but I want a spherical map displaying at least the continents and their relative sizes.

I do not want to install google earth to do this and maps just zooms out to a mercator map.

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http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/java/

It’s sponsored by NASA so I’m guessing it’s good. (Haven’t tried it though)

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@DThorn I’m just looking for something to use personally and that didn’t really help.

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@Pied_Pfeffer Might be me but I already found that page and it doesn’t show anything but text.

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That’s odd. On this end, it is a virtual globe that I can move to show the continents. It also shows the sun’s current light on Earth and is updated every 5 minutes.

Did you check out this site?

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