For ages I'm using
Xplanet as an animated background on my desktop, displaying a nice view of the earth.
Xplanet has a nice feature: You can download a (nearly) up to date map of the clouds and use it with Xplanet (see this
screenshot). Two download scripts are listed
here, but I wasn't too happy with them (although I did use the one written in Python for a long time). What nagged me about them was their irritating behaviour to download even the "file not found" page if there was no cloudmap available. So I wrote my own download script which checks if it has really downloaded a cloudmap before replacing the one in use.
That means that you may end up with an old one, but you have always nice clouds for xplanet.
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