Earth Explorer

Motherplanet's Earth Explorer is a useful application that helps you to understand, learn about, and research our beautiful planet Earth.You can explore the whole Earth with true-color satellite images at 40m/pixel resolution in a perspective window, just like flying over 36,000 kilometers above the earth on a satellite. Drag and rotate the global earth, zoom in and zoom out, or save your favorite pictures to the hard disk, all is perspective and so easy.

- 3D global view with 50m resolution satellite imagery and shaded relif DEM (digital elevation model) imagery convered entire earth;
- Include 267 countries and regions, 40000+ cities, 15000+ islands, 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes and vector layers includes political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, longitude-latitude grids;
- Easy-to-use user interfaces;
- Real-time loading of high resolution data to your desktop;
- Enable addition to user-definable Place Marks, Paths and personal comments over places.
- Measure and calculate distance and bearing between any two points, find a particular country, city, island by name;
- Display Compass, Map Scale and Map Legend.
- Enable Print and Print Preview, and you could control the resolution and size of your print.
- Enable operation under full screen mode
- Enable pan and zoom to rotate and observe the Earth.
- Scroll on mouse's scroll key to zoom in/out;
- Configure to show day/night shadow effect, adjust Gamma to control lumination, or choose a star space as background;