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• near real-time imagery of Earth is available in Google Earth! "What?! After all that you are saying it is available?" you ask. Sure, first there's the new Clouds layer. Found under the Weather layer folder. The clouds are actually taken from weather satellites and are a global picture of the clouds as recent as 3 hours old. Ok, so that's not the kind of imagery you meant.
• NASA has a layer they call DailyPlanet which shows the entire Earth at a medium resolution (about 250 meter resolution per pixel). You can view DailyPlanet in Google Earth . The imagery is taken by the MODIS Terra satellite and is processed as quickly as possible and shows the entire Earth between 6 - 12 hours old. The imagery is continuously updating.
• Right now, this layer from NASA is the most recent, highest resolution imagery of the Earth continuously updating available to the general public.

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