Earth Explorer integrates high-resolution satellite imagery (1km resolution) with kinds of map layers such as political boundaries, coastlines, rivers, lake and island boundaries, 267 countries and regions, 40000+ ranked cities, 15000+ islands, and 1700+ noteworthy historical earthquakes since 1980 into a fantastic 3D earth globe. You can specify what kinds of map layers to be shown, rotate the globe, click right mouse button and pull/push to zoom in/out the current map view, measure distance between any two points on the map, etc. Key features: 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; 10.Realtime online database access and cache mechanism support fast and fluent exploration;