About "Live Earth" -> Live Earth

The shadow the sun is casting upon Earth (the border between day and night) appears as it is at this very moment. Cloud coverage reproduced from data acquired by four weather satellites hovering 36,000 km above the Earth's surface updated every six hours.

Click a spot somewhere on Earth and it will stop revolving.
Click a spot somewhere in outer space and it will resume its revolution.
Drag your mouse to a region represented on Earth and triangular marks will appear on either side. Click on one of those triangles to increase the speed of the Earth's rotation.


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