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Google Earth has rolled out some spectacular new layers including "Astronaut Photography of Earth" with images from the last 40 years of NASA and "Earth City Lights," views of the planet at night.
The [new layers][1] highlight images from the collaborative effort between Google Earth and NASA which is designed to promote NASA's various "earth" programs.
As the Google LatLong Blog notes, "People are usually familiar with NASA's space missions, but not everyone knows that NASA also devotes a considerable amount of effort to Earth explorations."
The new layers can be found in the Featured Layers section on Google Earth, there's no need to update the application, the layers should be there.
The images for the Astronaut Photography layer are highlights from Nasa's online [Astronaut Photography collection][2] (an excellant way to waste time on the lazy Friday).
Google Earth has also updated its European roads content, adding 15 new countries in Europe, as well as adding more content for the Netherlands, like business listings layers and country names in Dutch.
[2]: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
[1]: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/07/nasa-in-google-earth.html
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