In the new version of Google Earth, oceans can be admired too. It's possible to look underwater, and thus look for the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, and let yourself be guided by videos of National Geographic and the BBC or to look for shipwrecks. Furthermore it's also possible to look at the urbanization or the melting polar caps using historical images.

Future Vision by Erwin Van Lun on this article

The framework to map the physical world in time and space completely is maturing nicely. Very soon we’ll be able to just walk through this 3D world, in the time we wish. Meet friends, make appointments, meet people, open stores, buy things. It’s all coming and it won’t take long now. Then it’ll get really exciting when this world gets projected around us. Or that we can sit on a bench and see a movie, 3D, holographic. In Google Earth, version 15.

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