Meanwhile, on your kitchen table…

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself foldingglobes.com

A tool converts satellite imagery into printable gores, the pointed petal shapes that cartographers have used since the 1500s to wrap a flat sheet around a sphere. Print, cut, fold, and you have a globe of the actual Earth as photographed from orbit. The geometry problem it solves is the same one Mercator was wrestling with.