Cosmoglobus — the living Earth in 3D
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Cosmoglobus — the living Earth in 3D
The satellites overhead, this week's earthquakes, cyclones, aircraft and ships, the radio of any town on Earth and the stars above it — on one globe, right in your browser, nothing to install.
On the globe
- Satellites and the ISS — thousands of spacecraft on their orbits in real time; click one to follow it
- Earthquakes of the last 7 days (USGS) with focal mechanisms and shake maps, this week's volcanoes, the day's fires and lightning
- Tropical cyclones with their tracks, the aurora forecast, wind and ocean currents as streamlines, GFS weather forecast
- Aircraft in the air (ADS-B) and ships at sea (AIS) with their papers, airports with arrival boards
- Online radio: 26,000 stations of the world where they broadcast from — hover and listen, a random station and the top ten
- Rocket launches with countdowns, solar eclipse paths, a meteor impact simulator
- The night sky: constellations and Messier objects, the Milky Way, the DSS2 sky survey, planets, the Moon; a planetarium mode — stand on the surface
- 67 imagery sources: Esri World Imagery, NASA daily imagery, Sentinel-1 radar, city lights at night, relief; a before-and-after comparison curtain
- 21 worlds: the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Pluto — with the names of their features
- Search for places and sky objects, bookmarks, a distance ruler, screenshots and video recording, 11 interface languages
How to use it
Drag the globe with the mouse or a finger, the wheel or a pinch zooms, a double click flies to a point. Layers are in the menu on the right, F searches, Esc closes or brings the default settings back, Space turns the globe.
What it needs
A current browser with WebGPU: Chrome, Edge or Opera on a computer, Chrome on Android; Safari 26 on macOS and iOS. The first visit loads about 25 MB; after that the browser keeps the data.
Data
NASA, ESA/Copernicus, USGS, NOAA, EUMETSAT, Esri, CelesTrak, Smithsonian GVP, Radio Browser, OpenSky/ADS-B, AIS, Natural Earth, GeoNames and other open sources — each one credited on the globe.