Earth and Moon Viewer

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Earth and Moon Viewer

 

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

 

Welcome to Earth and Moon Viewer.

Viewing the Earth

You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day

and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth

from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth,

above any location on the planet specified by

latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in

Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

 

Images can be generated based on a full-colour image

of the Earth by day and night, a topographical map of

the Earth, up-to-date weather satellite imagery, or a

composite image of cloud cover superimposed on a map

of the Earth, a colour composite which shows clouds,

land and sea temperatures, and ice, or the global

distribution of water vapour. Expert mode allows you

additional control over the generation of the image.

You can compose a custom request with frequently-used

parameters and save it as a hotlist or bookmark item

in your browser. Please consult the Details for

additional information and answers to frequently-asked

questions.

Viewing the Moon

In addition to the Earth, you can also view the Moon

from the Earth, Sun, night side, above named

formations on the lunar surface. or as a map showing

day and night. You can also make expert and custom

images of the Moon. A related document compares the

appearance of the Moon at perigee and apogee,

including an interactive Perigee and Apogee

Calculator.

Browser Requirements

To use the Earth and Moon Viewer, you need a graphical

Web browser with forms support and the ability to

display GIF and JPEG images. In order to pan around

the map or globe by clicking within the image, your

browser must support " Client-Side Image Maps " --if you

don't know what this means, don't worry: if your

browser doesn't support the feature, you'll see a page

which explains how to proceed.

Credits

The Earth and Moon Viewer would have been enormously

more difficult to implement without the help of the

software and imagery mentioned in the credits.

Related Software on this Site

Windows users can create images like this in real

time, on their own machines, as well as view the sky,

stars at the horizon, the solar system, orbits of

asteroids and comets, and more with Home Planet, my

public domain Earth/Space/Sky simulator available for

your FTPing pleasure. Other public domain astronomy

and space software available from the same site

includes:

 

On the Web:

Eclipse 2001 -- In Darkness: Africa and Eclipse

1999 -- Expedition to Iran.

Moon at Perigee and Apogee.

Solar System Live: interactive orrery.

Switzerland from Space.

Terranova: a new terraformed planet every day.

Your Sky makes custom star maps for any location

on Earth at any date and time.

 

For Windows:

Home Planet, Earth screen saver, Sky screen saver,

Moontool, Craters screen saver, and an Excel catalogue

of the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.

 

For Unix (X/OpenWindows):

Moontool, and Xsunclock.

 

All of these packages and more can be located from my

home page.

by John Walker

 

 

 

Try this one.

 

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?imgsize=320 & opt=-l & lat=44.375 & ns=Nor\

th & lon=86.6667 & ew=West & alt=958 & img=learth.evif

 

View from 958 km above 44°22'N 86°40'W

 

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