Saturday, October 08, 2011

More than one billion downloads for Google Earth


Google Earth has just hit a major milestone -- one billion downloads. Wow!

To show some of the ways that people have used Google Earth over the past six years, Google has compiled some of their stories and put them up on OneWorldManyStories.com for you to explore.

In addition, they built a great infographic showing off many of the features that you'll find in Google Earth.


In celebration of that, Google has created a great video highlighting some of the things you can do with Google Earth:

Google Earth celebrates 1 billion downloads



Included in the graphic:

• Explore the 80M 3D trees of Earth's forests (introduced with Google Earth 6)
• Get lost in dozens of 3D rendered cities around the planet, as well as monuments such asChrist the Redeemer, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Pyramids of Giza
• Travel through time with Historical Imagery
• Swim among 1,288 shipwrecks, including the Titanic in 3D.
Dive to half of the known oceans in high resolution
• Create virtual tours
Walk in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong
• Soar through 100M stars and 200M galaxies
• Follow the Mars Exploration Rovers' paths (Google Mars

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