texturing earths image on a sphere

[shashi]

hello,
i am a student and doing my final b.e,project in isro.i need to texture the earths image on a sphere.how do i do it if u have any ideas please send it to my mail.also if u have code fragments please mail it to me.
thank you..

[Aeluned]

Get a texture of the surface of the earth,
bind it,
and then call gluSphere. done deal.

look up quadrics at NeHe.

[seed]

you might also want to read up on cube mapping or sphere mapping