Last week NASA released a stunning bird’s-eye montage of Jupiter and its closest moon Io taken by the New Horizons robotic spacecraft. 
Since the pictures weren’t taken from Earth there seems little point placing them in Google Sky as if they were being viewed from Earth - in fact, because we’re much closer to the sun we never see [...]

Google Earth time animations of Atlantic hurricanes from 2006 - Ernesto, Florence, Gordon, Helene and Isaac.
One drawback of using animated sequences of picture overlays in Google Earth is that they tend to result in large, often memory hungry files.  With that in mind, I’ve been experimenting with some Python scripts that dynamically crop small regions out of [...]