Motherplanet Earth Explorer integrates high-resolution satellite imagery (1km resolution) with kinds of map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, lake and island boundaries, 267 countries and regions, 40000+ ranked cities, 15000+ islands, and 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 into a fantastic 3D earth globe. You can specify what kinds of map layers to be shown, rotate the globe, click right mouse button and pull/push to zoom in/out the current map view, measure distance between any two points on the map, etc.

Key features:
1. A 3D bird's-eye view of our beautiful earth;
2. Photo-realistic satellite imagery at 1km resolution covered entire earth globe;
3. Integrates with several kinds of map layers:
Vector map layers:
1) Political boundaries (International boundaries and internal boundaries);
2) Coastlines, lakes, islands and rivers;
3) Longitude-latitude grids;
Point map layers:
1) 267 countries/regions and detailed information;
2) 40000+ ranked cities and information;
3) 15000+ Islands and information;
4) 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 and detailed information;
4. Rotate/Zoom in/Zoom out functions lets you observe our beautiful planet at any point (Click right mouse button and pull/push to zoom in/out the current map);
5. Three kinds of operation modes (Drag, Center, Measure);
6. Measure distance between any two points on the globe;
7. Intelligent tips when your mouse moves upon a country/city/island/earthquake's mark or name label;
8. Sort country/city/island/earthquake table according to selected titles and interactive operate with the label and mark on the map;
9. Save favorite maps with BMP, JPEG formats;