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.

She’s filming herself exploring the country via Google Earth, dropping a pin into random ... “It’s mainly just upon first glance of the image,” she explains. “Would I want to go there?

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.