Earth Hour 2009

"8:30PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth. Saturday 28 March 2009"

Earth Hour is coming up on just a few weeks. I heard about this last year but can't remember if I ended up doing it or not, think I'll do my part this year.

New Google Earth 5.0 Takes You To Mars & The Bottom of the Ocean

Had a few minutes to play with the new Google Earth 5.0. It's very impressive. I don't have an application or a real purpose for anything I do on it but I think its a fascinating program.

New Google Earth 5.0 Takes You 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
By Scott Gilbertson
via Wired.com

Google has rolled out a major upgrade for Google Earth, the company’s desktop, geo-mapping browser. Google Earth 5 beta offers a host of new features, including interactive underwater details, historical maps, Mars togopography and the ability to easily record your Google Earth journeys.

The most exciting of the new features are the oceanography details. Google Earth has long offered minor, 2D topographical sketches of the Earth’s oceans, but the latest version adds the sort of details that Jacques Cousteau would have flipped for — you can now dive under the ocean and fly over undersea landmarks — mountains, trenches, shipwrecks and more.

The coverage isn’t complete, but it’s pretty easy to see where the details are and from there just simply keep zooming to dive underwater and swim around.

To go along with the new oceanography features, Google Earth has a few new data layers, including content from National Geographic and Cousteau Ocean World. Highlighted features include shipwrecks, maps of global chlorophyll levels, animal tracking data and more.

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What's New in Google Earth 5.0


Explore the Ocean in Google Earth 5.0

Earth's News Feed

Thanks to the staff over at CollegeHumor, we finally can see what Earth's Facebook news feed would look like.

I would suggest clicking on the pictures to make them more clear.