Official Google Blog: The best stories on Earth

I'm not sure how many of you have explored Google Earth. It's somewhat fascinating to do, though, especially when put into rl context. For example, I had a pen pal from Australia, and by typing our addresses in Google Earth, we were able to share our areas of the globe with each other. The satellite images let us explore the terrain around each other's daily lives, and brought our day to day recount stories to life in a way that simple text could never do.

Imagine doing that with a history class, geography report, or with current events. Wouldn't that bring a dry subject traditionally married to names and dates and virtually no visualizations to life? Now you can.

Google kindly elaborates:
Official Google Blog: The best stories on Earth

An excerpt for those too busy to click through the link:

"Everyone knows that Google Earth imagery and 3D terrain are unbelievably cool and fun to explore. But while you're flying around, have you ever wondered what is actually going on "down there" -- on the real earth? That narrative of living on this planet is portrayed in the new Featured Content for Google Earth. Accessible from the "Featured Content" folder in the Google Earth Layers sidebar, these new layers contain images, audio, video, stories and information about events unfolding around the globe."