Google Earth Blog reports that Google Earth has had a huge imagery update with satellite and aerial pics across the globe.

The images haven’t made their way into Maps yet, so if you click the image below you’ll just get an out-of-focus empty shore, but click the Google Earth link and you’ll fly to one of the super-cool artificial Palm Islands in Dubai.

There’s loads of things to see all over the place so hopefully we’ll see the images in Google Maps soon!

The Al Jazira Hotel & Resort is located on a man-made 7km private channel between the Emirates of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. From the satellite photo it is clear that the hotel boasts a couple of tennis courts, a helipad, and a pool shaped like a fish. It’s a good thing we can work that out for ourselves as the official website is sadly lacking in much more info or photos.

Thanks: Rob B

The Armed Forces Officers Club in Abu Dhabi has 120,000 square meter roof constructed from a 3 large concrete shells. My first thought was that it looked a lot like the Olympic Stadium in Montreal so it’s no surprise that both were designed by Roger Taillibert, a French architect who clearly thinks he’s designing spacecraft rather than buildings. There’s ground level photos and design sketches on Tallibert’s website.

Thanks to Tggb3k (We noticed your submissions eventually!)