Google launched a new version of Google Earth(Google Earth 5.0 ) that will let users to explore the oceans, view images of Mars and watch the Earth’s surface change over time.
From Google -“The new features on Google’s popular geography program were unveiled Monday(2nd Feb 2008) at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where former Vice President Al Gore was among the speakers.
Users of Google Earth 5.0 can now dive beneath the ocean’s surface, explore three-dimensional images of the underwater terrain and view articles and videos about marine science.
The Historical Imagery feature lets users see archive satellite images of a single location over time.
And Google Mars 3-D features high-resolution images of the Red Planet.”
Google Earth 5.0 is allowing users to travel underwater now, taking full advantage of even more than just the aerial and satellite photographs that have made Google Earth such a hit over the years.
Google Earth can now highlight areas of the ocean that are not capable of supporting life such as this dead zone off the coast of Florida.It also lets them travel back in time to see earlier versions of the service’s aerial and satellite photography.
And the very interesting thing here is its new history feature in Google Earth 5 which lets you go back in time to see satellite and aerial imagery from the past. In this picture you can see a chunk of land in Sacramento, Calif., in 1998.
Some Images from Google Earth 5.0
(source : news.Cnet.com)
Mars view from Google earth
Under the ocean – Travel into the deep
Wreckage of the Titanic
Ocean Dead zones off the coast of Florida.
New history feature – chunk of land in Sacramento, Calif., in 1998.
