New Google Earth 5.0 Takes You 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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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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Last week when Google launched Google Earth 5, the world not only got 3D undersea terrain, and an ocean surface. According to GEB reader Daniel P. some undersea wrecks are sitting in 3D on the sea bottom. For example, you can see the wreck of the Titanic [Google Earth Required. You must have GE installed.] (as many know, it broke into two main parts). You have to turn on the "3D Buildings" layer folder to see the wreck. Also available is the wreck of the Bismark (48°10′N 16°12′W).

First up, there's been great anticipation about a rumored 'Google Ocean'. Well, Google has met the anticipation of new ocean data - but, they're not releasing a separate product. It's all in Google Earth 5. First, we now have 3D bathymetry. Those new blue ocean floor magery is not just a 2D relief map - they are now 3D terrain. Move your mouse over the ocean and you'll see below sea level elevations (negative numbers). But, the real surprise is when you first start flying towards the ocean and tilt your view. You now see an ocean surface! And, if your graphics card is new enough, you see wave motion on the surface.
Ocean surface in Google Earth 5

The real pleasure comes when you fly under sea surface. You can both see the 3D bathymetry and see the surface above you for a real submarine-like experience!
Beneath the Ocean surface in Google Earth 5

And, there is a huge amount of new ocean related layers. Under the Layer pane in the lower left you'll see a new "Ocean" layer folder. The folder contains a number of interesting new layers including material from National Geographic, Cousteau Society, BBC, NOAA, and more. There are locations of shipwrecks, tracks for ocean expeditions, GPS tracks of sea animals, and lots of information about the ocean environment. This was significant enough that Al Gore came to make the announcement. More on all of this in future posts. Especially given my interests in the ocean.

This is the video..Chk it out!!

Whats new in Google Earth 5

Titanic Ship Wreck!!:hap2:
 
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