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New Google Earth Aims to Boost Environmental Awareness – Timeline Feature

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Posted on: February 3, 2009

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New Google Earth Aims to Boost Environmental Awareness – Timeline Feature

New “Earth” unveiled

Google’s new online map of the world aims to boost environmental awareness. The latest version of the popular Google Earth let’s users dive into the sea and fly to mars. It uses sonar data from the US Navy and others to let users see landscapes hidden under the sea. Bobbi Rebell reports.

 
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Guardian: Google Earth, Google Ocean: mysteries of the seafloor are mapped for the first time
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New York Times: Google Earth Fills Its Watery Gaps
National Geographic FIRST LOOK: Google Ocean in Pictures
BBC: Google Earth dives under the sea
Telegraph: Google Earth allows web users to explore world’s oceans in 3D

 

Greensburg, Kansas, Tornado Imagery

Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at 5:10 PM

Recently the town of Greensburg, Kansas was devastated by an F5 tornado and most of the town was destroyed. On May 7th one of our satellite providers, DigitalGlobe, jumped into action and gathered imagery of the region for search-and-rescue teams. Today we are making this before-and-after imagery available as a Google Earth overlay. We think you’ll agree that the imagery is quite powerful, and we hope it is a valuable resource for rescue teams, residents, and all of those touched by this natural disaster.

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