Marble: View The Whole World In Virtual Global

Google Earth is a fantastic program packed with features, but if you want to try an alternative, there’s Marble. This open-source virtual globe and world atlas lets you view the Earth from space, complete with real-time clouds and sun shadow. Marble also offers maps of the moon and nearby planets.

                                                         marble.kde.org
Mm requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Mac OS X or Linux File size: 26. 3MB

Zoom in and you can view our world as an atlas, or at Street level using OpenStreetMap (www.openstreetmap.org). You can search for places, find out about a particular location by looking it up on Wikipedia, create routes and measure the distance between two points. Marble also lets you switch between satellite, topographic and education views.