Tour of the Tropics
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Tour of the Tropics

Here's a tour for Google Earth. (You might have to right click and download then open in Google Earth.)

I created this tour because I wanted to see the difference in proportion of land to water between the northern and southern summers from the point of view of the sun.

This tour will change your camera field of view angle from 60 degrees to 12.5 degrees so that you can see as much of the hemisphere facing you as possible within the limits imposed by Google Earth.

To start the tour double click on the "Tour of the Tropics" tour.

This field of view was set up for a nearly square aspect ratio so if some of the Earth is cut off at the top and bottom, then decrease the width of your window until all of Earth is in the view.

After the tour you can visit the individual points on the tour by double clicking the place marks.

To reset your field of view double click the "Reset tour"

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