Many people not only explore, but also fond of geography and astronomy. These are really very interesting sciences. Especially if there is everything you need for a fascinating and visual study. For example, today it is very easy to find online online 3D Solar System Model. Which will allow you to observe the movements of the planets, movements of satellites and other space objects. 
Today we will look at the service somewhat different plan. This is 3D Earth Globe online. Who will he be interested in? First of all, those people who love to observe directly behind our planet, but do not forget to admire the beauty of the surrounding space.
How to run an online "3D Globe Earth" application
It is very interesting to find this, a visual and spectacular application is very easy to use the help of our site, which is ready to propose to make a transition to the address.
If everything was done correctly, a three-dimensional image of our native planet surrounded by stars appears on the monitor screen, and illuminated by the sun.
Work with 3D online world globe is very simple:
- It is enough to move the computer mouse to change the angle of the review on the heavenly body.
- There are several additional options for displaying our planet. To do this, it is enough to use one of them. It is enough to click to click on the desired option, which is located at the top of the right corner of the screen.
Modern Internet gives really a lot of useful opportunities to those people who are looking for them. For example, an amateur of geography or just beautiful species can be a very interesting Virtual Globe of Earth, made in 3D.
The network you can find enough many services offering to see and explore the map of the earth globe online. Naturally, I want to consider the most interesting of them.
Mother Earth - one of the most visual virtual earth globes
Indeed, this particular option suggests not only the globe of the earth online, but also provides a number of possibilities for changing the resulting image.
What does that require:
- Go to the main page of the online service http://oos.moxiecode.com/js_webgl/world/index.html, where the 3D model will be presented in its classic version on the background of the starry sky and our sun;
- The image can be easily rotated in different directions, driving turns using a mouse;
- What is the most important thing - everything is absolutely free!
If desired, you can easily change the display option. To do this, you need to pay attention to the small menu, placed in the upper right corner of the working screen. In addition to classic, there you can detect six more options for the Virtual Globe of the Earth:
- Blocks - Displays the continents of the planet in the form of peculiar blocks.
- Geodesic - makes it possible to evaluate relief.
- Lines - Similar to the previous option, only the model is presented in the form of spectacular vertical lines.
- Horizontal Lines - as it is clear from the title, the line will now be located horizontal. It looks very interesting.
- Half Spheres - It turns out something fantastic using a hemisphere.
There is another option - Particles. What exactly it shows, it is not entirely clear. But it looks very original. Perhaps these are ties of communication that transmit their signals across the entire planetary network.
Alternative online services
From alternative online globic planets worth paying attention to the three options presented at www.Webglearth.com. This resource offers quite an interesting alternative:
The last option is a real find for historians who do not have the opportunity to get to Rome and personally consider this relic.
Earth, like other planets, has a shape of a ball, a little bit alone with poles. The man, being on the surface of the Earth, sees only a few square kilometers of its square. At the same time, the total area of \u200b\u200bthe surface of the Earth is 510 million square meters. km.
Fig. 1. Dimensions of land
Globe - Model of Earth
In the form and size of the planet, the earth model was created - the globe.
Fig. 2. Globus
the globe- Three-dimensional reduced land model. Globus has the same form as the planet itself, it is the volumetric, axis of rotation, as well as the planet, is inclined.
On the globe depicted continents, islands, oceans, seas, etc. They have the same outlines as on the surface of the earth, and are located relative to each other as well. Thus, on the globe is minimal distortion of the earth's surface.
The first globe was created about 150 years before. e. The most old of the Globe of Martin Behaimima remains the oldest of the globe.
Fig. 3. Globe Behaeima, 1492
Geographic Maps
In addition to the globe and plans, the image of the earth's surface is actively using cards. On the map, in contrast to the plan, you can see the entire earth surface or its large parts. In addition, geographical maps are small scale, as the image has to be reduced to a large number of times to fit on the map.
Geographic map- An image of a terrestrial surface containing a degree mesh, in a reduced form on the plane using conventional signs.
Geographical maps are completely different. For example, the maps on which natural objects are depicted: mountains, seas, plains, mainland, are called physical; The cards on which countries are depicted, their borders, the capital - political.
Fig. 4. Physical Map of the World
Fig. 5. Political map of Eurasia
There is a special type of cards - contour cards. These cards have only the boundaries of geographic objects, their outlines, a degree network. On such maps, you must independently mark the studied geographical objects, observing accuracy, accuracy and using other geographic maps.
Fig. 6. Contour world map
Bibliography
Basic
1. The initial course of geography: studies. for 6 cl. general education. institutions / etc. Gerasimova, N.P. Nezlukov. - 10th ed., Stereotype. - M.: Drop, 2010. - 176 p.
2. Geography. 6 cl.: Atlas. - 3rd ed., Stereotype. - M.: Drop, Dick, 2011. - 32 s.
3. Geography. 6 cl.: Atlas. - 4th ed., Stereotype. - M.: Drop, Dick, 2013. - 32 p.
4. Geography. 6 CL.: CONT cards. - M.: Dick, Drop, 2012. - 16 p.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Directory and Statistical Collections
1. Geography. Modern illustrated encyclopedia / A.P. Gorkin. - M.: Rosman-Press, 2006. - 624 p.
Materials on the Internet
1. Federal Institute of Pedagogical Measurements ().
2. Russian Geographical Society ().
For free observation of the earth's surface and view snapshots from the satellite online, you can use multiple applications. Two of them are most popular in Russia: Google Maps and Yandex Maps. Both services boast of good quality pictures from the high resolution satellite of most countries.
Yandex Maps - online application from Russian developers, so in it more accurately worked out the city of Russia. It has a built-in functionality for viewing traffic load data (large settlements), demographic and geodata. In the maps from Google, no less high-quality pictures from the satellite of the territory of the Russian Federation, but the data on land and traffic is available only for the United States.
Watch map of the planet Earth from the satellite online
Below you can get acquainted with the built-in card from Google. For more stable work of the plugin, we recommend using Google Chrome browser. If you see an error message, refresh the specified plugin, then restart the page.
Watch Google Planet Earth from the satellite, real-time online:
Another advantage of Google Maps is the availability of a client application to work with satellite shots. This means that access to the service can be obtained not only through the browser, but also through the previously downloaded program. It has much more opportunities for viewing and studying pictures from a satellite, working with a three-dimensional virtual globe.
3D card from the satellite from Google (downloadable app, not online version) allows you to:
- use a quick search for the right objects by name or coordinates;
- do screenshots and record high quality video;
- work online (preliminary synchronization is required via the Internet);
- use the air simulator for more convenient movements between objects;
- save "favorite places" for rapid movements between them;
- browse not only the earth's surface, but also pictures of other celestial bodies (Mars, Moon, etc.).
You can work with Google satellite maps through a client or browser application. A plugin is available on the official page of the program that allows you to use an interactive map on any web resource. It is enough to build its address in the site program code. To display, you can choose both the entire surface and a certain area (you have to enter the coordinates). Control - with a computer mouse and keyboard (Ctrl + mouse wheel for scaling, cursor for moving) or using icons designated on the map ("Plus" - closer, "minus" - remove, move using a cursor).
Service Google Planet Earth in real time allows you to work with several types of cards, each of which reflects those or other data in the satellite pictures. Between them it is convenient to switch "without loss of progress" (the program remembers where you "were"). Available viewing modes:
- landscape card from a satellite (geographical objects, features of the earth's surface);
- physical map (detailed pictures of the surface from a satellite, cities, streets, their names);
- conceptual geographical map for more accurate examination of the surface shots.
A snapshot from the satellite is automatically loaded at the site of approximation, so a stable Internet connection is required to work. To work Google Planet Earth On Offline mode, you need to download the application for Windows or another operating system. For its work, the Internet also requires Internet, but only for the first launch, after which the program synchronizes all the necessary data (snapshots from the surface satellite, 3D models of buildings, the names of geographic and other objects) after which it will be possible to work with the received data without direct Internet access.
Now we will look at another Virtual Globe - the free MARBLE program.
MARBLE is a virtual (electronic) globe. Thanks to this globe, you can learn much more, both about your planet and about many planets of the solar system. For example, about Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and their satellites.
Maps are decorated in various styles, from road map, to climatic, topographic, temperature, night lights. Also, it is possible to consider maps to various historical periods. This applies not only to the land, but, and the moon with Mars. For example, the Atlas of the alleged Channels of Mars, compiled by Perciva Lowell in 1895, looks like the Atlas.
Or, the earth globe is 1492 years old. I saw such cards only in a flat scale. Pay attention to the North Pole. Here we see the mainland similar to an ancient hyperbore.
Also, you can see the map of the moon, for example, 1645, compiled by Johannes Gevelius. As can be seen from the screenshot, on the map we see many lunar craters and the lunar "sea". A place in the form of a sickle is the dark side of the moon hidden from the eyes, which was photographed only in the middle of the XX century by the Soviet satellite.
Marble how to work with the program
Marble version 2.2.0 download from official Site for 32 and 64 Windows bit systems. Also, the program is great for Max OS X and Linux (best of all this program is suitable precisely for Linux). But, I would advise at the beginning download Marble Rus version 1.4.1. This version has less opportunities, but it is in Russian. Accordingly, it will work easier with it.
Subsequently, when you get used to the program menu, you can update, or download a new version. Unfortunately, it will already be English-speaking. If you find a Russian-speaking new version, I will be grateful when you insert her link in the comments.
So, install Marble. We have a label in the form of a compass. We launch our software. Then, pay attention to the left menu. Choose a map, land and in the "design" OpenStreetMap. Then, with the mouse, approach the settlement you need. For example, one of the districts of Volgodonsk will look like.
You can pave a route in the map. To do this, in the route menu, select the point A, then V. put them on the map. Choose, car, pedestrian or bike. Click "Get the Route".
We have the route with blue line. Unfortunately, sometimes the program slows down. In this case, it is recommended to install a newer version.
You can enable User Photo Upload (available in a newer version).
Vintage Maps of Earth, Moon and Mars
This is one of the most interesting moments. You can see how the card looked from the end of the XV century. So, let's see which cards in the program menu are available to us. To do this, in the left column we will choose "Design". Next, I will open the Globe of the Earth for 1570. It can be twisted, closer or removing.
In the Arctic Ocean, the incomprehensible mainland is shown again (hyperbeda?). Antarctica also looks huge and connected to Australia.
On the supplied program are not all kinds of cards. To view others, choose a "file", "Download Data".
We get to the page of the site, which presents a variety of cards both land and other planets for a different period. Download the desired.
Then, unzip files and set to the MARBLE installed folder. Namely, in the Maps folder.
Moreover, insert the land cards separately into the Earth daddy, the Moon in Moon, Mars in Mars (who knows English will figure it out quickly) and other planets are also separate. You can see how beautiful the lights of the night land look like with cosmic height.
Or what does Eurasia look like climatic zones? For example, it becomes clear that almost all of Scandinavia, Karelia and Siberia are in the Arctic Polar Zone, and S.-Petersburg is located next to her.
I advise more View other planets in this virtual globe. You can believe me, look very beautiful! Successes!
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