About earthglobe.app

earthglobe.app is a free, fast 3D globe of the Earth, made to be calm and simple: no ads, no pop-ups and no account.

It is run by Takreparation Skåne AB in Ängelholm, Sweden (Org.nr 556988-5931). Questions or corrections: info@earthglobe.app. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.

Sources and credits

Earth imagery: NASA

• Day surface: Blue Marble: Next Generation, December 2004, with topography and bathymetry. Produced by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center). Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. NASA Earth Observatory: Blue Marble: Next Generation (Reto Stöckli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).
• Night lights: Black Marble 2016 color map. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data. NASA Earth Observatory: Earth at Night, Black Marble 2016 maps.
• Clouds (optional layer): Blue Marble cloud composite. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / NASA Visible Earth. It is a still image, not live weather.

NASA images are generally not protected by copyright in the United States and may be used for informational and educational web pages, with NASA acknowledged as the source (see the NASA Images and Media Usage Guidelines). We have resized the images and converted them to WebP. They are hosted on this site.

Borders, places and country facts

• Natural Earth 1:50m country boundaries and populated places (public domain). Same country data as our sister site globlegame.co.
• World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) (CC BY 4.0). Latest figure, 2025.
• Wikidata (CC0): capitals and areas. Where a capital is disputed or split between cities, the card says so.
• Flags: flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis (MIT license).

Data was downloaded and checked on 2026-10-31. Found a mistake? Email info@earthglobe.app.

Software

• three.js (MIT license) for the 3D globe.
• d3-geo and topojson-client (ISC licenses) for map math.

License texts: third-party.txt.

How the globe is made

The day and night line uses a standard approximation of the Sun’s position for the current time. The distance tool uses the great-circle (haversine) formula with the Earth’s mean radius of 6,371 km. Country areas include inland water.