tap = wake up · double-tap = zoom · triple-tap = replay the last hours
Double-tap to zoom · drag to turn · tap ● for the next city, hold it to fly
Earth
Cities
Globe view
Replay
Triple-tap replays the real satellite record of the last
On the globe
Motion
How to use
Double-tap the globe to zoom in there; again at full zoom to come back out.
Drag to turn the Earth, pinch to zoom.
● tap: next city · hold and move: fly anywhere.
◷ hold: fast-forward time (watch day and night sweep and the clouds stream).
Wallpaper tab: exactly what the Android lock screen shows. Tap = wake up (the real last 6 hours play),
double-tap = zoom, triple-tap = replay the hours you chose.
On iPhone: tap Share → Add to Home Screen to get Earth as an app, full screen.
Real sunlight, city lights and live clouds from five weather satellites (GOES-East/West, Himawari, Meteosat), stitched every 10 minutes (earth-live) and moved along the measured winds. Weather layers: NOAA GFS and WAVEWATCH III. Labels: GDACS, NOAA NHC, Launch Library 2, CelesTrak.
Aurora: NOAA SWPC. Fires: NASA FIRMS. Lightning: NOAA GOES GLM. Contains modified EUMETSAT data. Imagery: NASA Blue Marble and Black Marble. Places: Open-Meteo.
EARTH
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