Now with more water: Google Earth launches new version
Last Updated: Monday, February 2, 2009 | 1:57 PM ET
CBC News
Related
Internal Links
Images of shipwrecks filmed by a Halifax company and 3-D underwater landscapes are part of a new ocean module in the latest version of Google Earth.
The module is included, along with new GPS tracking functions, sequences of satellite images of a single location over time and imagery from the surface of Mars, in version 5.0 of the internet program, which became available for download beginning Monday.
The program bills itself as a virtual globe, including satellite images, maps and search functions.
Halifax-based Eco-Nova Shipwreck Central Inc., which produces documentary films about shipwrecks, provided some of the images in the ocean feature.
John Davis, producer at Eco-Nova, said his company has been shooting footage of shipwrecks for almost 15 years and is delighted the images are available to a wider audience.
Share Tools
Top News Headlines
- Canada expels all remaining Syrian diplomats
- Canada is expelling all Syrian diplomats remaining in Ottawa to protest the latest escalation in violence against civilians by the Assad regime. more »
- Canadian climber's body taken off Everest
- The body of a Toronto woman who died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest earlier this month has been taken by helicopter to her family in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu. more »
- RCMP commissioner pledges to rid force of 'bad apples'
- The RCMP's disciplinary process is so bureaucratic and out of date that "bad apples" end up staying on the force long after they should be thrown out, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson says in a remarkably frank open letter to Canadians. more »
- New Italian earthquake death toll rises to 15
- A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people in the same region still struggling to recover from another fatal tremor on May 20. more »
- 'Engine shutdown' forced Air Canada jet to land
- Evolution skeptics will soon be silenced by science: Richard Leakey
- Richard Branson suggests naked kitesurfing to premier
- RCMP commissioner pledges to rid force of 'bad apples'
- Newly discovered malware most lethal cyberweapon to date
- Thunder Bay flooding causes state of emergency
- New Italian earthquake death toll rises to 15
- Canadian climber's body taken off Everest
- Canada expels all remaining Syrian diplomats
