Nifty satellite views on my desktop

My G4 tower desktop with OSXplanet displaying an orthographic projection centered over Salt Lake City.

(Click image to view 1280x1024 332KB capture in separate window)Check out OSXplanet, a program that puts a satellite image of Earth on your Mac desktop and lets you view current daylight shading, cloud maps (watch the hurricanes move across the Atlantic), tracks of some well-known satellites (the International Space Station figures prominently on my images now and then), and volcano and earthquake data.

OSXplanet gives you a choice of several map projections. You can also view other planets from Earth—the Saturn shot I had earlier was pretty cool—or view any planet from any other planet, for example Mars from Pluto or Venus from the moon.

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