MARBLE | An Alternative to Google Earth, Explore Moon and other Planets Maps too

         While searching for the best alternative to Google Earth I bumped into MARBLE, a KDE educational project. It is a 3D Atlas and Virtual Globe application that rivals Google Earth.

Available Platforms

Windows

Mac

Linux

Follow satellites and space stations and display their orbits

PLANETS

Earth ( and Moon too)

Mars

Venus

   Find the distance between places and calculate pedestrian, bike and motorcar routes with ease in both online and offline modes.                                                                                                                        

 * 11 MB of Offline data Available

Views Available

Topological

Satellite

Precipitation

Temperature

Streemap (via openstreetmap)

opencycle (for cylists)

Historical

 We can change the times to get different day and nigh view of earth.

Historical View

Saving Map data

We can export or print the current map

Wiki Tags

By clicking the Wiki tags on the marked places, we can view the Wikipedia information.

Visit Marble Website

Sources: Linuxers,Marble