Google Earth 6 - a fresh assembly of the popular client software to work with three-dimensional model of the Earth, created on the basis of high resolution satellite images. Ability to use the original zoom (sometimes down to individual houses), and much more, including the identification of the origin of property. With Google Earth you can travel around the globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D-buildings, fly to distant galaxies and dive into ocean trenches.

Google Earth 6 gives you a wealth of photographic, geographic and astronomical information. With it, you can visit many different parts of the world and the cosmos, whether the island of Maui, Paris and the Milky Way, and view content from Wikipedia, National Geographic, images obtained with Hubble Space Telescope, and much more.

The power of Google Earth 6:
* The visual material on world history
* Meet with the underwater world, along with researchers at the ocean
* Travel with the possibility of audio and video.

Google Earth: Release Notes

New features in Google Earth 6
* Integrated Street View:
In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated. You can enter Street View either by dropping pegman in navigation controls or by zooming in all the way to ground level on places that have Street View.
* 3D Trees:
Google Earth now has trees. You can enable trees by turning on the check-box next to the Trees layer under the 3D buildings layer folder. You can see trees in several places, and we will add trees to more places over time.
* Easy to use historical imagery:
When you fly to an area where historical imagery is available, the date of the oldest imagery will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you click on this date, you’ll instantly be taken back in time to view imagery from that time period.
* Ground-level navigation:
In Google Earth 6, in addition to flying around features, you can now walk on the ground to explore either 3D buildings and trees or Street View imagery.
* 3D Measurements in Google Earth Pro:In addition to measuring distances and areas on the ground, you can now measure heights and widths of 3D building and distances from buildings to the ground.

Other changes in Google Earth 6
* Tour Recorder Improvements:
With Google Earth 6, the tour recording feature has been improved in several ways. The tour recorder now incorporates the activation of Sunlight, Street View, and Historical Imagery modes into the recorded tour. Additionally, the quality of the recording has been significantly improved, including better motion fidelity and better synchronization with sound recording.
* Earth on PowerPC Mac:
We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on PowerPC Macs. Users of PowerPC macs can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
* Earth on OS X 10.4:
We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on 10.4 version of Mac OS X. Users of this version of Mac OS X can still use Google Earth 5.2 version.
* Earth on Windows 2000:
We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on Windows 2000. Users of Windows 2000 can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
* Linux Builds:
Google Earth Linux binaries are now based on the Linux Standard Base. This improves the compatibility of Google Earth on different Linux distributions, but requires users to have Linux Standard Base installed on their system. If your Linux system does not have LSB, please install it using apt, yum, smart or up2date. As a side effect of moving to LSB, joysticks are currently unsupported.

System Requirements and Recommendations for Google Earth
Minimum:
* Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
* CPU: Pentium 3, 500Mhz
* System Memory (RAM): 256MB
* Hard Disk: 400MB free space
* Network Speed: 128 Kbits/sec
* Graphics Card: DirectX9 and 3D capable with 64MB of VRAM
* Screen: 1024x768, "16-bit High Color" - DirectX 9 (to run in Direct X mode)
Recommended:
* Operating System: Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
* CPU: Pentium 4 2.4GHz+ or AMD 2400xp+
* System Memory (RAM): 512MB
* Hard Disk: 2GB free space
* Network Speed: 768 Kbits/sec
* Graphics Card: DirectX9 and 3D capable with 256MB of VRAM
* Screen: 1280x1024, "32-bit True Color"