Today is Groundhog Day, a North American festival which reckons that: "if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If the groundhog sees…

Today we’re celebrating, as this post right here is the one thousandth post on Google Sightseeing! We’re commemorating the event in three ways… 1. We’re re-launching our Google Earth Network Link, which has been less than functional for a few…

In the desert of Mali, West Africa, we find the skull of an ex-cow, which was captured as part of the National Geographic Africa Megaflyover project. By the look of those horns, I'd say the skull probably once belonged to…

Although the Soviet Buran space program only ever achieved in a single orbital flight, we've found a surprising number of space shuttles on Google Earth. We started with images of a structural test shuttle and then the abandoned follow-up model…

Google Earth satellite images have unearthed Samsung's top secret development of the World's largest Plasma Television. After Japanese manufacturer Matsushita topped the South Korean electronics company's 102" plasma with a 103" model Samsung moved developments to the African country of…

Deep in the Mojave desert, there's some sort of aircraft which looks as if it crashed and was left to rot. So how did it come to be here? There's a military airfield to the east, Camp Wilson, so it's…