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English: World map in English showing the tectonic plates boundaries with their movement vectors and selected hotspots. Français : Carte mondiale en anglais des limites des plaques tectoniques avec leurs vecteurs de déplacement et une sélection de hotspots.
English: Detailed world map in English showing the tectonic plates with their movement vectors Français : Carte détaillée en anglais des plaques tectoniques avec leurs vecteurs de déplacement Español: Mapa detallado en inglés que muestra las placas tectónicas con sus vectores de movimiento
This is a list of tectonic plates on Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal types of material: oceanic crust (also called sima from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust (sial from ...
NASA WorldWind is an open-source (released under the NOSA license and the Apache 2.0 license) virtual globe. According to the website, "WorldWind is an open source virtual globe API. WorldWind allows developers to quickly and easily create interactive visualizations of 3D globe, map and geographical information.
Image:BlankMap-World-v4.png – Version of v2, but it increases the size of other tiny countries as well, for visibility purposes, and uses white borders even for the microstates. Image:BlankMap-World-v4-Borders.png – Version of v4 with borders around each country.
NASA WorldWind, an open-source virtual globe with stars and advanced atmosphere and sunlight effects. A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:15, 15 November 2012: 600 × 600 (202 KB): Jahoe: Set nominal size to 600 x 600 px (not so important, can be scaled to any size, but nicely fitting the commons preview); removed Adobe-specific code; removed doctype declaration; minor typographic enhancements in the SVG source.
Earth3D was developed as part of a diploma thesis of Dominique Andre Gunia at Braunschweig University of Technology [1] to display a virtual globe of the earth. It was developed before Google bought Keyhole, Inc and changed their product into Google Earth. Earth3D downloads its data (satellite imagery and height data) from a server while the ...