Windows on Earth is an inter­esting Google-​​Earth-​​like visu­al­iza­tion pro­gram, appar­ently sim­u­lating the International Space Station’s view of the world in detail. A ver­sion of the project can be run through your web browser, no download.

The inter­face is kind of cool.

Apparently leg­endary video game designer Lord British is cur­rently on the space sta­tion, and is using the pro­gram to help him take pho­tographs of spe­cific loca­tions on earth, which will then be released, through the Windows on Earth pro­gram. Which all seems a bit meta. Interestingly, Lord British’s father is/​was a NASA astro­naut, and the photos being taken now will be for com­par­ison with those taken by his father in the 70s and 80s, to visu­alize land cover change and human impact. Sounds like an inter­esting project.