Earth, rendered live — spinning at the real rate of rotation, lit by the sun's true current position. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, click the corner to go fullscreen.
Credit: Earth day and cloud imagery by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center — enhancements by Robert Simmon. Night lights (Black Marble 2012): NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data courtesy of Chris Elvidge, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. Public domain.
Day/night terminator is computed from the sun's real declination for today's date; the globe's spin is tied directly to your system clock, not a looped animation.