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The feature works on both the app version of Google Earth and the browser-based version. To access it, tap the layers menu.
Yes, we've been able to time-travel around our cities and previous homes for years now on Google Maps, but Google Earth feels ...
Explore new features coming to Google Earth and take a look back at the major milestones of the platform since 2005.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Google Earth, you can now go back in time when scrolling with a handy 'Historical ...
This disaster relief work highlighted how Google Maps and Google Earth can deliver a unique way for you to see the impact disasters have on affected communities. May: 360-Degree Businesses.
Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...
In 2007, two years after Google Earth was launched, it partnered with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to map the Darfur genocide in real time. This was the sort of thing Gore had in mind for his ...
The map above shows planet Earth’s reflectivity, or albedo, as the proportion of the sun’s energy that’s bounced back to space. Ice-covered regions are the most reflective, ...
These 14 objects identified to create an Earth-finding map are indeed pulsars, and so the plan seemed like a good one. But since the late 1970s, ...
NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are about to launch a groundbreaking satellite that can monitor Earth’s surface with incredible accuracy. A Giant Leap in Earth Observation This ...