Projects Using Xplanet
- Looking for a unique baby gift? Birthday Earth Images
uses Xplanet to create custom simulated images of the earth with
accurate cloud cover for any time/date/location. I am a partner in this site.
- xplanetFX is a fantastic set of scripts to enhance xplanet images!
- Our Planet Earth from Space provides a number of views of the earth from different locations and with updated weather.
- Earth provides views of the earth, with updating clouds and monthly land maps to show changing vegetation and snow cover.
- The Xplanet Configurator is a java frontend to Xplanet.
- Living Earth HD is a World Clock and Weather app for the iPhone and iPad, using the Xplanet cloud maps.
- WorldView Live Wallpaper is an Android app which uses Xplanet and the cloud maps to draw its images.
- Abe Rajab has an excellent guide for running Xplanet on OS X. There's a lot of information there that is of general interest.
Solar System Simulators
- Xglobe is a
program similar to Xplanet, written using the Qt library.
- John Walker's Earth
and Moon viewer is an interactive page on the web which can
display an image of the earth or the moon from a user specified time
and location.
- Celestia
is an excellent interactive 3D space simulator.
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