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MARBLE | An Alternative to Google Earth, Explore Moon and other Planets Maps too



         While searching for the best alternative to Google Earth I bumped into MARBLE, a KDE educational project. It is a 3D Atlas and Virtual Globe application that rivals Google Earth.

Available Platforms
Windows
Mac
Linux

Follow satellites and space stations and display their orbits



PLANETS
Earth ( and Moon too)
Mars
Venus





   Find the distance between places and calculate pedestrian, bike and motorcar routes with ease in both online and offline modes.                                                                                                                        
 * 11 MB of Offline data Available



Views Available
Topological
Satellite
Precipitation
Temperature
Streemap (via openstreetmap)
opencycle (for cylists)
Historical

 We can change the times to get different day and nigh view of earth.

Historical View


Saving Map data
We can export or print the current map

Wiki Tags
By clicking the Wiki tags on the marked places, we can view the Wikipedia information.





Sources: Linuxers,Marble 







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