225. Video of the day: Google Earth 5 beta
Uncategorized — By Dmitry Podolsky on February 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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Dmitry Podolsky has got his PhD from Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics. He currently works as postdoc at Case Western Reserve University. He is also one of the editors of NEQNET.
New Google Earth beta version has been recently released and it is just amazingly cool: it supports historical imagery (that is, you can see how the part of the Earth’s surface you are interested in looked like 50, 100, 10000 years ago), ocean data (that is, you can now study the ocean’s floor with Google Earth!) and even 3D map of Mars. Below is the official announcement video:
Video explaining how historical imagery works:
The ocean’s floor feature:
and finally the 3D map of Mars:
Via Google Earth Blog.
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Wow, that’s cool. Downloading immediately. By the way, I think you’re wrong it’s “beta”. It seems to be branded as the official, final release.
Thanks for the backlink! I’ll check out “beta” issue.
Dmitry.
Nope, this is beta. See the text below the button “Download Google Earth 5.0″ on the main Google Earth site.
Cheers,
Dmitry.
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