They are both time animations so to watch them click the play button on the time toolbar. We also looked for large real life toys in Google Earth and managed to find an enormous knitted rabbit in ...

Scrolling down the page and you see there’s a world to explore with a new feature called Voyager. And there’s a new Google Earth for Android version as well. Back at the top, there is a button that ...

Thank you for GEB reader Jonah for being the first to let us know. Google has added yearly global mosaics using Landsat and Sentinel 2 data going back to 1985. Google has long had these mosaics on ...

This is the fourth and final in a series of posts about the size of the data in Google Earth. We already looked at: How much data 3D imagery requires How much data different types of 2D imagery ...

If you’re ready to do some exploring, an amazing compilation of sites assembled by Andy at The Megalithic Portal will keep you busy for hours! He’s released a compilation of more than 25,000 ...

A lot of people wonder about Google Earth imagery. Why is the image of my house so old? Why can’t I get a picture of my car accident from a month ago? Why doesn’t Google get newer pictures? This ...

2013 was another amazing year for Google Earth. While there weren’t any new groundbreaking releases of the main product, we saw some excellent uses of Google Earth and some amazing discoveries. Here ...

Some of you out there are running brand new, amazingly fast machines that can handle anything you throw at it and Google Earth consistently runs well. For the rest of us, though, we need to balance ...

We recently came across China’s South–North Water Transfer Project. China has more water in the south than the north and water shortages are becoming a problem in the north. The South–North Water ...

Ever since the news of Bin Laden’s death last night, people have been digging around in Google Earth trying to find the location of the mansion in which he was killed. [UPDATE 4: View some 3D models ...

The new feature is still being tested and may be a bit buggy, but can be enabled on your computer right now if you go to [Tools] –> [Options] –> “Use photorealistic atmosphere rendering“.

Back in 1968, Charles and Ray Eames created an amazing short film titled “Powers of Ten” to illustrate the size of our universe from the very largest to the very smallest scales. If you’ve never seen ...