Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris, as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, and schools. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. With Google Earth you can fly from space to your neighborhood--just type in an address and zoom right in, search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions, tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, save and share your searches and favorites and even add your own annotations.

What's New In This Version:
Improved Startup Time. The improvement is most noticeable when users launch the Earth application multiple times.

Improved overall rendering performance. Changes include faster atmosphere rendering and using compressed textures whenever possible.

Improved Road rendering Performance: Frame rate at places with dense road networks is three times faster than in previous releases.

Improved memory utilization in the application.
Significantly smoother frame-rate and less stuttering in the application compared to previous releases.

Improved performance with large region based network link KML documents. Some of large
KML documents are now processed and rendered at more than twice the speed of earlier releases.

Improved KML document handling performance. Large regionated KML Image overlays are up to 80% faster than previous releases.

Support for KML hint = moon or mars to switch to moon or mars based on kml document.

Availability of one installer that installs both the Google Earth application and browser plugin.

Desktop Application now works on Windows 7.

Users can set the memory cache size up to 1024 MB now.