Facts about our amazing earth
Can you name the lowest spot on Earth? The tallest peak? Do you know how far it is to the center of the planet or what's there? Where are the planet's hottest, coldest, driest and windiest places? This is a list of Earth's extremes and other amazing facts is presented in Q&A; format, so you can cover the answers to test your knowledge of the home planet.
View Earth from space
Here you can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions in real time, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.
Put it all into perspective
And this will put it all into perspective; an image of Earth as seen from Mars taken by Mars Global Surveyor in 2003.
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