Michal Tina

This educational program brings a plethora of geographic information right
to your desktop. After you launch Earth Explorer, you'll be greeted by a 3-D
rendition of the Earth spinning in space. To the right of the globe sits a
table of information on countries, cities, and islands. Simply clicking on
one of the entries shows you its location on the globe, and scrolling over
the table gives you data, such as population, size, and capital. From the
version 3.0, a search function is provided for makes finding a particular
city, country and island. You can zoom in or out on any area of the
map,calculate distances and bearing between two points, open day/night
effect and change the globe's rotation. Earth Explorer also can be
configured to show different views, such as those outlining rivers, major
cities, and recent earthquakes, a preference dialog is provided to choose
distance unit, lat/long format and some useful settings else. Both students
and world-curious folks will find this application provides a fun,
interactive way to learn.

Major Features:

1. 3D global view with 1km resolution satellite imagery and shaded relif DEM
(digital elevation model) imagery convered entire earth;
2. Inlucding 267 countries and regions, 40000+ cities, 15000+ islands, 1700+
noteworthy historical earthquakes and vector layers including political
boundaries, coastlines, rivers, longitude-latitude grids;
3. Measure and caclulate distance and bearing between any two points, find a
particular country, city, island by name;
4. Config to show day/night shadow effect, adjust Gamma to control
lumination, or choose a star space as background;
5. Integrate Topographic view and satellite view in a program seamlessly and
has a perfect blend view of the two.(Only provide with professional
version);
6. Real-time deliver high resolution data to your desktop and provide
offline version;
7. Easy-to-use user interfaces;

Website:
http://www.motherplanet.com
Free copy can get from:
http://www.motherplanet.com/download...thExplorer.exe
http://www.motherplanet.com/download...xplorerDEM.exe
Screen shot:
http://www.motherplanet.com/images/e...lorer-full.jpg
http://www.motherplanet.com/images/e...r-dem-full.jpg

More information:
http://www.motherplanet.com/products.htm

By ordering Earth Explorer or upgrading from a previous version, you can
enjoy a most favorable discount program until December 31, 2004. When this
promotional campaign finishes, prices will go back to original.

Best regards,
Michal