Related: Check out this new Jupiter – Clouds in Motion story. Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer ...

This has been a big week for Mars with the new NASA discovery of flowing water on the red planet, and the release of a blockbuster movie “The Martian” based on the New York Times best seller of the ...

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 ...

Thanks to GEB reader ‘ehog’ for letting us know that Győr, Hungary got the new 3D mesh recently. However, there has been no easy way to find the new automatically generated 3D areas that Google is ...

When earthquakes occur, tools like Google Earth can be very helpful for visualizing the affected areas and working to help those in need of assistance. Relief organizations use Google Earth and Google ...

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 ...

Now that Google Earth Pro is free it is worth exploring some of the features it has that are not available in the standard version of Google Earth. Google Earth Pro comes with a built in tool for ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Tuesday we had a look at Google Earth Pro’s Movie Maker. Today, we are looking at another Google Earth Pro exclusive feature, the Viewshed tool. The Viewshed tool shows the line of sight from any ...

Ever since Google Earth was first released, users have been spotting aircraft in flight in the imagery. When an aircraft is captured in flight in Google Earth it is not uncommon for it to have a ...

While exploring Google Earth’s 3D imagery, you will probably have noticed that even in the busiest cities, people are largely absent. This is because of the way the 3D imagery is captured. Based on ...