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2. Google Earth - Wikipedia

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   Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery. The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles. Users can explore the globe by entering addresses and ...

3. Mapparium - Wikipedia

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   The Mapparium was designed to allow the countries of the world to be viewed in accurate geographical relationship to each other, hence the design of the Mapparium—a mirror-image, concave reversal of the Earth, viewed from within. This is the only configuration that places the eye at the same distance from every point on the globe.

4. Globe - Wikipedia

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   Globe. Topography globe featuring physical features of the Earth. A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down. A model globe of Earth is called a terrestrial globe.

5. Timeline of first images of Earth from space - Wikipedia

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   First image of Earth from another astronomical object (the Moon) and first picture of both Earth and the Moon from space. December 11, 1966 ATS-1: First picture of both Earth and the Moon from the Earth's orbit. First full-disk pictures of the Earth from a geostationary orbit. [image needed] January 1967

6. Unisphere - Wikipedia

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   Unisphere. /  40.74639°N 73.84500°W  / 40.74639; -73.84500. The Unisphere is a spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. The globe was designed by Gilmore D. Clarke for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Commissioned to celebrate the ...

7. Erdapfel - Wikipedia

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   The Erdapfel ( German for 'earth apple'; pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯tˌʔapfl̩] ⓘ) is a terrestrial globe 51 cm (20 in) in diameter, produced by Martin Behaim from 1490 to 1492. The Erdapfel is the oldest surviving terrestrial globe. It is constructed of a laminated linen ball in two halves, reinforced with wood and overlaid with a map painted on ...