EarthBrowser was a

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software developed by Lunar software. It was available online as a

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application or could be installed locally as an

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application. It focused mainly on visualising geophysical information such as weather, earthquakes, clouds, weather conditions, etc. It showed the earth as satellite images. EarthBrowser was originally developed in 1996 by Matt Giger, a

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graduate student, under the name Planet Earth. It was one of the first applications to show real-time patterns (including weather, earthquakes, and volcanic activity) on a virtual globe. It was largely superseded by the introduction of

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, used by most current virtual globe software.

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