Desktop Earth is an earth-themed wallpaper application that will interest people interested in what the earth looks like in space. This free application, which embedded its icon in the desktop background, shows a photo of Earth in space, taking up the entire desktop screen. A satellite map is overlaid on the Earth image to reveal the different places where the photos were taken and the corresponding latitudes and longitudes. The free application will also show you where the photo was taken in real-time, giving you a chance to actually look at the pictures in real time.
If you happen to be a Windows user, then you are definitely going to love this application. However, if you are a Mac OS user, you will also probably appreciate this application. It has been designed with the Mac user in mind. Desktop Earth is the result of a collaboration between NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. With the help of these two centers, we are given the opportunity to see the world from different viewpoints, not just from an aerial view. We can take a satellite picture and view it in various modes like an aerial photograph, digital image, or a full-fledged filmstrip. All three modes have the same effect - a panoramic view of the Earth.
For those who don't know much about the Earth, here's some information you might find interesting: the surface of the planet is made up of land masses, oceans, and ice caps, and each one of them has their own characteristics and unique features. Earth's surface is divided into different zones depending on its climatic conditions. At the top of the world lie the Polar Regions, which have polar ice caps, ice plains and the glaciers that make up these areas. The Northern Hemisphere contains areas where snow falls and at the south of the world, tropical rainforests cover the earth.