3D Earth Studio

A hyperrealistic globe - day and night with city lights, live clouds, atmosphere halo, country borders and highlights, click-to-place markers with flight-route arcs, satellite orbits, seamless rotation video and a live website embed.

Extension

The real Earth, live in your design

The Earth you know from space photography, turning live under your pointer. 3D Earth Studio renders a hyperrealistic globe: the Blue Marble by day, the Black Marble’s city lights by night, and real satellite cloud cover in between, all matched to one projection so continents, lights and weather always agree.

Place the sun and the terminator sweeps across the sphere, soft as the real one; the cities come on exactly where darkness falls. Wrap the limb in a glowing atmosphere, let mountain ranges catch the light, put a sun glint on the ocean. Then make it yours: crisp country borders, any country highlighted in your colour, markers planted with a click that know which country they landed in, elegant flight-route arcs between them, and inclined satellite orbits circling overhead.

What leaves the studio is whatever your design needs: a transparent still that stays editable, one full rotation as a seamless video loop, or an embed that turns the globe live on your website, spinnable by every visitor. Everything is computed in your browser.

Features

Day, night and weather

Slide the sun around the globe and the terminator follows, soft as the real one. City lights glow only where it is dark, and real NASA cloud cover drifts above it all - thin it out or switch it off.

Features

Countries at your command

Crisp Natural Earth borders in any colour, and any country filled with your highlight - the globe becomes a map that says exactly what your design needs it to say.

Features

Markers, routes and orbits

Click the globe and a marker lands there, named after the country under it. Connect markers with elegant great-circle arcs as a chain or a hub, and let inclined satellite orbits circle overhead.

Features

Still, loop or live embed

Insert a transparent, re-editable still; record one full rotation as a seamless video loop; or copy a snippet that runs the globe live on your website, spinnable by your visitors.

What is included

Hyperrealistic globe from NASA Blue Marble imagery
Night side with real Black Marble city lights
Live satellite cloud cover with density control
Atmosphere halo, mountain relief and ocean sun glint
Natural Earth country borders and colour highlights
Click-to-place markers that know their country
Great-circle flight routes, chain or hub
Inclined satellite orbit rings
Five one-click looks and a deterministic starfield
Seamless rotation video, transparent still and live embed

Requirements

Works in every modern browser. Runs on top of the free WunderPaint; nothing is uploaded.

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Frequently asked questions

From NASA’s public-domain Earth observations – the Blue Marble surface, the Black Marble night lights and real cloud cover – plus Natural Earth country data. The set ships with the extension and everything renders in your browser.

Yes. The embed snippet runs the globe live on your page: it turns by itself, visitors can spin it by hand, and it politely sleeps while off screen and respects reduced-motion settings.

It is seamless by construction: the globe turns exactly once and every satellite completes whole orbits, so the last frame meets the first without a seam.

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