How to use
The shadow the sun is casting upon Earth (the border between day and night) appears as it is at this very moment. Cloud coverage reproduced from data acquired by four weather satellites hovering 36,000 km above the Earth's surface updated every six hours.
Drag your mouse to a region represented on Earth and triangular marks will appear on either side.
Click on one of those triangles to rotate Earth.
Click a spot somewhere on Earth and it will stop revolving.

*Cloud image is provided by Japan Weather Association through e-tenki.net

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