Globe views are available in four styles, against black or white backgrounds. These 3D views were generated using the Satellite Imagemap, a global natural-colour image of the Earth's entire land surface based on Earth observation satellite imagery. Click on the thumbnails below to access views of the globe in your chosen style.
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Cloudy The Earth in its natural, cloudy, state. Cloud cover is derived from geostationary weather satellite images. |
Ocean Depth
A natural land suface combined with a colour-coded ocean depth map. |
Night-time* The Earth at night without clouds, based on images from the US Air Force DMSP weather satellite. |
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*The night-time images with the white background are greyscale images which may be used as masks in an image processing package to combine the night-time lights with any of the other globes.
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This section contains specially-framed views of each continent in three styles. Click on the thumbnails below to view the images full-screen.
| Europe | Europe with seafloor | Europe at night |
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This section contains flat maps
in the Eckert III projection in three styles.
Centered on Europe
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| Cloud Free | Ocean Depth | Night Time |
Centered on America
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| Cloud Free | Ocean Depth | Night Time |
Centered on the Pacific
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| Cloud Free | Ocean Depth | Night Time |
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