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Images: New visions from Google Earth

Content partnerships include overlays of videos, photos and blogs on geographical locations.
By Andy Smith, Contributor
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Great Pyramids

Google announced on Wednesday that new partners will directly overlay Google Earth maps with video, photo and blog content.

Content on places, such as the Great Pyramids shown here, will feature three- to five-minute clips of existing Discovery Network nature and travel channel content.

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Taj Mahal

"Think of it as a browser to fly around the planet and discover things about the earth," said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Maps.

Partners with Google Earth include the United Nations Environment Program, the Discovery Network, the U.S. National Park Service and the Jane Goodall Institute.

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Grand Canyon

The National Park Service has supplied information on over 10,000 trails at 58 parks.

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Yosemite

The National Park Service information includes red markings directly overlaid upon satellite images of the actual trails, as well as photos of select vistas and general park information, according to Hanke.

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Rondonia

Google Earth maps of the world's environmentally significant locations will feature before and after satellite images originally published by the United National Environment Program as a coffee-table book.

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Updating

Google Earth's Kilimanjaro geographical point, for example, now includes a U.N. Environment Program icon. It brings people to a 1976 satellite image of the snow-capped mountain (left), as well as a modern day image sans snow (right). People can view the significant change by using a timeline bar that transitions between the images.

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The Jane Goodall Institute

The Jane Goodall Institute, famous for its studies on chimpanzees, will make photos and blogs by scientists available to the public via Google Earth.

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Itsukushima Shrine

More information on the Itsukushima Shrine in Japan is available from the Discovery Network.

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Aral Sea

Here is Google Earth map of the Aral Sea with additional information provided by the U.N. Environment Program.

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