Exocet Earth is a three dimensional globe that runs in a browser tab. There is nothing to install, no account to make, and no app store in the way. You open the page and the planet is already there, turning, lit by the Sun where the Sun actually is at this minute of this day.
The light is real. The page reads the clock on your device, works out where the Sun stands over the Earth right now, and lights the globe from there, so the line between day and night on the screen is the line that is crossing the world while you read this. City lights come up on the dark half.
Four views sit on top of that. Surface is the planet itself: satellite imagery, relief you can exaggerate until mountains stand up off the sphere, every national border, and the networks that hold the modern world together, including the cables under the sea, the flight corridors and the freight lanes.
Fires shows every active fire NASA's satellites measured in the last twenty four hours, usually tens of thousands of them, each one a 375 metre square the VIIRS instrument saw burning. The feed refreshes through the day. Most of those fires are not disasters: across Africa, India and Brazil the great majority are farmers clearing fields on a calendar that has run for centuries, and the globe says so rather than letting the map imply a catastrophe.
War shows every place on Earth where organised violence killed at least a hundred people in the last twelve months, sized by how lethal the year has been, alongside every openly published nuclear installation: the missile fields, the warhead stores, the submarine ports and the enrichment plants. You can see what a given missile can reach, and where people displaced by the fighting have gone.
Interior cuts the planet open. The crust, the mantle, the outer core of liquid iron and the solid inner core are drawn to scale, with the depths and temperatures marked, so the thinness of the part we live on is visible rather than described.
Satellite imagery is NASA's Blue Marble, served through NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services and sharpened as you zoom. Active fires are NASA FIRMS, from the VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-20 and Suomi NPP satellites, in near real time. Armed conflict figures come from ACLED, the Uppsala Conflict Data Programme, the International Crisis Group and the UN. Nuclear figures come from the Federation of American Scientists and SIPRI. Displacement figures come from UNHCR. Where sources disagree the more conservative number is used.
It does not track you. There is no analytics script, no advertising network and no third party cookie on this page. Nothing about where you look, what you click or where you are is sent anywhere, because none of it is collected in the first place.
Exocet also runs a game, which lives at thecometgame.com: one button, one week, and the highest score in the world when the week ends wins a hundred dollars. It is free, it is decided by skill, and the winning run is published afterwards so anyone can replay it and check the result themselves.