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# marble
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Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads.
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A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.
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Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover.
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Marble offers different thematic maps:
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- A classroom-style topographic map,
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- a satellite view,
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- street map,
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- earth at night and
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- temperature and precipitation maps.
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All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms.
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For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.
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In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections:
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Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe.
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