Google Earth combines satellite imagery and aerial photography to create a rich picture of earth. You can use Google Earth online, on your smartphone or tablet, or on its desktop app — all for free.

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Google Earth now offers historical imagery, allowing users to explore aerial photos dating back up to 80 years. Street View is also expanding to nearly 80 countries, with fresh imagery added for ...

I appreciate receiving reader feedback, and I received some from the August 2013 Tech Tips about using Google Earth (G-E). The basic message was that while G-E is interesting, the fact that it doesn’t ...

When taking a trip down memory lane, some might flip through a photo album or scroll through their phone’s camera roll. But would you think to check Google Maps? Since 2007, Google’s Street View cars ...

Google Earth has added satellite photos from 2021 and 2022 to its zoomable timelapse video of our planet. Journey through space and time with the 4D interactive map, featuring nearly four decades of ...

People do like to organize their trips. That’s why Google Earth is so popular in the first place. You can pretty much get around the world from the comfort of your home and check out places you want ...

A World of Information Google Earth puts an entire planet’s worth of useful, relevant, and just plain weird content at your fingertips. As you saw in “The Strangest Sights in Google Earth,” some ...

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the ...