Some of the new features in Google Maps will also impact Google Earth. The Grounding with Google Maps feature. Image source: Google Grounding with Google Maps is a feature that will let developers ...

Satellites in low Earth orbit travel at approximately 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) in order to counteract the planet’s gravity. In the final image shown on Google Earth ...

The aircraft is smeared in the image because it was in motion, while the farm fields below appear as crisp as any other view on Google Earth. There's something else that now appears on Google Earth.

Image courtesy VirZOOM The studio says that Fly uses Google Earth’s 3D Map Tiles, offering a massive Earth-sized space for players to explore, including full 3D geometry in many major cities.

The first satellite of the Google-backed FireSat constellation ... the constellation’s more than 50 satellites will be able to image nearly all of Earth’s surface once every 20 minutes.