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Get airborne with the astonishingly realistic flight simulator hidden away in Google Earth
Most people have heard of Google Earth, the interactive world map that cleverly mashes satellite photography, 3-D graphics and internet data. Few, however, have fully explored it.
Did you know, for example, that it contains an amazingly realistic secret flight simulator? Or that you [...]
Gone are the days of a fearless Indiana Jones battling through the jungle in search of ancient treasures. Today’s archaeologists are using high-tech tools - from NASA satellites to Google Earth - to do the hard work for them.
In 2005 the Internet search company Google launched its virtual globe Google Earth constructed from satellite images [...]
Don’t just zoom in on your back garden - discover 10 hidden secrets in the amazing Google Earth.To find out how to create your own virtual tours, search the stars, master the flight simulator, share your photos with the world and model your house in 3D, read the Hidden Power of Google Earth feature in [...]
The Sunlight Foundation released a map of where nearly 1,500 2008 House defense earmarks are going. The map uses Google Earth to pinpoint each earmark’s destination and includes data on its recipient and dollar value. All told, 2008 defense earmarks (money lawmakers direct to individual projects) total over $5.1 billion with the largest [...]
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip are using Google Earth to select targets in Israel for rocket attacks.
Google Earth, the internet site which provides detailed satellite maps of the world, has come under fire in the past for allegedly aiding Islamic militants.
A failed September 2006 attack on oil facilities in Yemen was reportedly planned with [...]
Remembering this, I set out to discover if there happened to be any high-resolution images on Google Earth around the area where the Israeli air strikes reportedly took place. The London Times story purported to offer some clues:
An audacious raid on a Syrian target 50 miles from the Iraqi border was [...]
Actually, Israel’s one of many countries - around 130 - that were covered by the Google Earth update, but it appears to be most affected. As posted on Monsters and Critics, “Google Earth’s upgraded archive of satellite pictures exposes key Israeli military and security sites, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily reported Friday, warning it [...]
The Naval Base Coronado near San Diego has gone unnoticed since it’s groundbreaking in 1967. Then Google Earth had to come in and ruin everything. The satellite mapping site revealed to the public that, from the air, the structure was shaped like a swastika (oops!). Turns out that the Navy knew about this all along, [...]
Backyard astronomers can float through the cosmos, navigating 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies, with Google’s latest online venture.
The internet giant this week unveiled Sky, part of its popular Google Earth program, which allows users to view the night sky above and zoom in on faraway constellations and planets.
The high-resolution images have been provided [...]
Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted by the Google Earth Community:
It turns out that this scale model corresponds to a 450×350 kilometer piece of real estate [...]
Google reveals China’s military secrets
Inquirer, UK - Jul 10, 2007
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 10 July 2007, 08:33 GOOGLE EARTH has shown pictures of what military experts say is China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine.
A satellite image of China’s new nuclear ballistic missile submarine is available on the Google Earth Internet site.
One photo is of what is apparently the new Type 094 Jin-class SSBN at the Xiaopingdao base near Dalian, FAS reported.
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Satellite spots secret sub MSNBC
The picture’s value has more to do with what people outside the government [...]
You might have noticed that with Google Earth you can only zoom to a certain level, or that some parts of the world are not covered with high resolution pictures…
Your Nokia N95 can bring the solution to get a high quality bird’s eye view of the area you prefer. All you need is your N95, [...]
New online travel portal, www.Door2Tour.com, is offering customers the chance to take a virtual tour of their holiday destinations through Google Earth, allowing travellers to track tours and zoom in on specific attractions using detailed satellite views. With Door2Tour.com’s unique Google Earth ‘layer’, customers can select the terrain layer of mountains, take a 360-degree [...]
After 10 years of work, researchers this week unveiled a detailed 3-D simulation of ancient Rome, circa A.D. 320. Visitors can examine 7,000 buildings and even go inside the Colosseum for an in-depth tour.
It took centuries for Rome to rise up on the banks of the Tiber River to become one of the ancient world’s [...]
One of the four terror suspects in an alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks and a gas pipeline at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport recommended Google Earth as a way to obtain detailed aerial photographs, according to a court complaint obtained by The Smoking Gun.
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The battle for Tampa, Miami and the rest of the Earth is officially under way.
For a while Google held the lead with a mapping program, Google Earth, that allows users to see a satellite image of just about any address in the country.
Then Microsoft unveiled its Virtual Earth software, offering higher-resolution “bird’s-eye views” of many [...]
The world is truly a really big place. At any moment in time you can take a picture from space (or an airplane) and always catch something interesting going on. With millions of people using Google Earth and Maps, eventually someone will happen upon something interesting among the millions of photos in the Google imagery [...]
On the 9th, the Committee for Democratization of North Korea released some satellite pictures of Kim Jong Il’s private villas in North Korea. The committee is a newly founded organization which unites all defectors based groups and was officially established on the 10th.
Former secretary to the North Korean Workers’ Party, Hwang Jang Yop has taken [...]
Satellite imagery turns globe into a computer peep show.
This is the Age of Google Earth and Microsoft’s Live Search Maps — of computer wizardry that offers a whole new window through which to peer down upon the world. It’s a planetary perspective that would have been the envy of explorers from Marco Polo to Neil [...]
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