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Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants,

OSXplanet is a live updated background based on xplanet. It can display a view of the earth on your deskop.

This simple and aesthetic widget will display the sunlit portion of the Earth. The widget updates once per minute and has no user preferences. The Earth images used by the widget are courtesy NASA

This app repetedly saves your location into a kmz file for Google Earth. When the file is imported into Google Earth, it is set to refresh every few seconds. The outcome is a placemark that appears

Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth, "The Mother Of All Games". Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island

The year is 1957 and a fleet of flying saucers from Planet X have come to Earth. These saucers are under the control of the evil Brain Aliens who are abducting helpless human beings and taking them

MapDiscovery is a viewer for Web Map Services (WMS). With MapDiscovery you can find digital topographical maps.

WW2D is cross-platform, free and open-source application similar to NASA World Wind or Google Earth software. It allows you to explore Earth using satellite imagery, topographic maps and images from

This is a nifty little model of the Earth using real-time satellite imagery. It uses very little memory so it can be left to float on your desktop indefinitely.