The search giant has updated Google Maps so that when users zoom out completely, the perspective switches to a 3D globe, instead of a flat map view. Prior to the update, Google Maps used a 2D Mercator ...

“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

Planet Earth 3D (for iPad) is an Earth science educational app that provides an overview of our planet, its oceans, continents, and ecosystems, its internal structure and atmosphere, its rotation (and ...

The interactive online map, known as MeteoEarth, takes a global look at the rainfall, cloud cover, wind patterns and temperatures on our planet. Users can zoom in and out and around the 3D globe to ...

Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre. From space, the Earth looks like a sphere or a ball. About two thirds of the surface is covered with water, and the rest is covered ...