AC.earth displays Earth as seen from Space (or flatly spread out on a table). The image is updated regularly as the globe revolves and day and night silently move over continents and oceans. AC.earth offers a variety of configuration options so you can tweak this standard-behavior quite a bit. Like hovering over your home town, or zipping around in a satellite, or looking down from the moon, or...
It runs on any platform (Windows, Linux, Apple, any!) because it is written in Java. Java usually will be allready installed on your system. In the case it is not (shame on the manufacturer!), the Java Run Time Environment (JRE version 1.4 or higher) can be downloaded from Sun.
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