Note that there is some overlap in geographic coverage between these categories. Earth Viewer With Earth viewer you can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, or from a satellite in Earth orbit. It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server. Satellite Photos Declassified satellite photos, from the U.S. Government, are accessible from this site. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map of the world is worth a thousand pictures.
Maps help create our world view.
They tell us who we are in relation to the other peoples of the earth. In trying to understand the world we live in, it's important that we use a map whose purpose is to give us a geographically accurate image of the world. The Peters Projection was created in 1974 by Arno Peters to address some of the problems of existing maps, without reproducing existing distortions and biases of other maps. The importance the of Peters Map goes beyond its portrayal of sizes and proportions, it leads us to a new view of the world. This site offers a selection of outline maps for use in the classroom or at home.