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so let's take a look at Earth browser that can be found on the earthbrowser.com site.
When you first arrive, it may look something like this. You see Earth and you see a few
buttons. That's the Earth Browser online demo. So, you grab and move Earth, so you can spin
it around and look at the North and South Poles and such.
You can also double-click and it will zoom in wherever you double-clicked.
You can click on the first button that says "Night shadows" and this is the current shadow
that is typical of this time of the day. You can click on the Clouds, and clouds will
appear and this is actually the most current data.
Then Doppler Radar shows to you precipitation, cloud formation, where it's all going, and
it looks like we are in for some bad weather maybe.
Mmmm... Then there is Earthquakes, the Earthquakes
button. You can see that actually there have been quite a few of them around. In Puerto
Rico, in Mexico and along the West Coast. Then you can click on precipitation, and immediately
you see the legend that shows to you precipitation in certain areas.
Popular spacecraft... I think I am going to have to zoom out. Yes, this is true. There
we go... When you mouse over that, this is Galex, but I know that I saw... Oh, the International
Space Station... Oh... oh there we go, the International space station is right now over
the Atlantic in the Southern Hemisphere. And it seems to me that it's the actual location
at this point in time. And finally you can also look at tropical
storms. Luckily, none of them are imminent at this point, so that's a good thing.
You can also... I showed to you how you can zoom in using your mouse or the buttons on
your trackpad. You can also zoom using the... this slider, that changes the elevation zoom.
And you can go back in time... Say... Well, I think you have certain limits there.
And when you start animation you see that things are starting to move much faster than
they are moving currently. So, that's very... impressive!
And it's all free right now, in the demo version, obviously, but still free.