This Earth shader was created from dozens of real-life satellite imagery for reference (the Earth really does look that blue). For your convenience, the shader may be tweaked through the 'color' slot of the atmosphere layer.
New & Updated Features in 3.0
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-Shader responds dynamically to lighting and viewing angle
-Orange sunset rim at sunset locations on Earth
-More Realisticly Tweaked Textures
-Easy to Setup. Requires no external plugins. Just open the scene and hit render.
Features
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-Textures are available in hi-res or low-res
-Land and Water Texture
-Terrain Height Field (can be used as bump) Texture
-Cloud Base Texture
-Specular Map