Motherplanet's Earth Explorer is a useful software that helps you to understand, learn, and research our beautiful planet earth.

You can explore the whole earth with true-color satellite images at 1km resolution in a perspective window, just like flying over 36,000 kilometers above the earth on the satellite.

Drag and rotate the global earth, zoom in and zoom out, or save your favorite pictures to the hard disk, all is perspective and so easy.

Here are some key features of "Earth Explorer":

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;

What is new in version 3.5:
1. Major updates include:
1) Improved location map display;
2) Add user-define location map to Earth Explorer;
2. Minor updates:
1) Windows XP look and feel is used for Windows XP;
2) The maximum resolution of the trial version is
set to 5km per-pixel;
3) Some minor bugs fixed;