News tagged with google earth
Untouched meteorite impact crater found via Google Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- A pristine meteorite impact crater has been found in a remote area of the Sahara desert in southwest Egypt. The crater was originally noticed on Google Earth images, and is believed to be ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Shooting for the moon -- to mine it
Most people don't take it literally when they're told to shoot for the moon - but thinking small isn't Naveen Jain's way. The 52-year-old Internet entrepreneur is a co-founder of Moon Express Inc., one of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. The vehicles, which are self-propelled and remotely ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Google Earth eclipses one billion downloads
Google Earth software has been downloaded more than one billion times, and that stellar achievement was marked Wednesday with a website showcasing ways the interactive replica of the planet is used.
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Scientists find out what fear looks like from space
(PhysOrg.com) -- While most of us could find no better use for Google Earth than checking out a holiday destination, scientists in Sydney have shown it can reveal a lot about the behaviour of marine life on ...
Jun 16, 2011 |
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New Google ocean maps dive down deep
(PhysOrg.com) -- Starting today, armchair explorers will be able to view parts of the deep ocean floors in far greater detail than ever before, thanks to a new synthesis of seafloor topography released through ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Google Earth maps show populations at risk near nuclear plants
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a novel use of existing technology and data, Nature News in conjunction with Columbia University, has created a Google Earth map that shows the different population sizes surrounding nuclear power plants; ostensibly, to demonstr ...
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Virtual island could revolutionize tourist trade sector
Three-dimensional versions of Mediterranean islands will be updated virtually automatically with current information from a range of public and private databases. The European research project may launch a ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 22, 2010 |
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Police search Google Korea for alleged privacy breach
South Korean police Tuesday searched the offices of Google Korea to investigate whether it breached privacy law in collecting information for its Street View service, an officer said.
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Website, Google Earth offer 3-D views of Hawaii
(AP) -- A new website backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar says it will offer potential visitors to Hawaii the ability to view hotels, shops and tourist attractions in three dimensions and from different angles in an interactive ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Cycling a virtual Tour de France on the bike of the future
Tiny beads of sweat break out on Konstantin Domorazki's brow as he races his bike through Beijing's Forbidden City pursued by a tenacious opponent he just can't shake off his tail.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Google Earth dives into oceans and WW II
Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities.
Feb 05, 2010 |
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Google Earth Application Maps Carbon's Course
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, particularly when the picture is used to illustrate science. Technology is giving us better pictures every day, and one of them is helping ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon
(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Find your own place on the Red Planet
Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographic information program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited functionality; Google Earth Plus (discontinued), which included additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($495 per year), which is intended for commercial use.
The product, re-released as Google Earth in 2005, is currently available for use on personal computers running Windows 2000 and above, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux Kernel: 2.4 or later (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin (released on June 2, 2008) for Firefox 3, Safari 3, IE6 and IE7. It was also made available on the iPhone OS on October 27, 2008, as a free download from the App Store. In addition to releasing an updated Keyhole based client, Google also added the imagery from the Earth database to their web based mapping software. The release of Google Earth in June 2005 to the public caused a more than tenfold increase in media coverage on virtual globes between 2005 and 2006, driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications.
For more information about Google Earth, read the full article at
Wikipedia.
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