You know Google right? Its that company that plans to index all information everywhere in the world. They’ve outdone themselves again this time with Google Earth 5. The main new features are a time machine (way cooler than that Apple invention) and a way to see under the sea.
The sea now shimmers, though the picture does not show it.
The depth of the ocean is now represented.
You can now see through time.
Some imagery of Cupertino from 1953.
One interesting thing is that if you zoom out a lot, the star field changes with the date. They seem to be accurately calculated star positions for each date.
Areas of scientific interest (Antarctica for one) seem to have lots of older imagery.
You can see an ice shelf that broke off a while ago on Antarctica.
I’m not sure if this is a new feature, but right clicking gives this:
Moving the mouse up while right clicking zooms out, down zooms in, and rotating the mouse around it rotates the view. All operations are centered around it, so zooming in zooms in on the point where you right clicked.
Overall this is a really cool update to what is already a really cool piece of software.
Images copyright Google 2009
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