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July 30, 2006
Google Saturn
You can see a very nice looking Saturn using Google Earth thanks to an excellent 3D textured model by a Google Earth Community member. Download this Google Earth Saturn model here 
. You will need to be using Google Earth 4.0+ (if you haven't already downloaded it). You can spin the model and look at it from different angles. The Google Earth Saturn file was created by 'barnabu' and posted here. He used SketchUp and Paintshop Pro to create the rings and Blender for the globe texturing. Apparently Google Earh has some problems with rendering large 3D Models like this because you see some weird rendering artifacts in the rings at certain angles. But, overall the model looks really nice. I still think Google Earth should be extended to the rest of the universe like the nice open source program Celestia.
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 30, 2006 9:59 AM
Comments
Posted by: Morten at July 30, 2006 4:17 PM
Don't forget that NASA's World Wind comes with the moon (with 3d terrain), Mars (with 3d terrain), Venus, and Jupiter, and there are add-ons/plugins for the rest of the planets (including rings where necessary).
Posted by: Erik at July 31, 2006 9:29 AM
It really should be the univers as a whole.
Start fromt he sun and go to the start of time.
It should also have a good update period. So we can see our space station and anything else that may pass thru our univers. That would be good TV viewing. we are all prett tired of our currant choice of TV viewing I am sure lol :P I'd love to wake up and flick on the sunrise over the Earth :)
Posted by: Raymond T at December 22, 2006 3:54 PM
NICE TRY BUT WHEN I ZOOM IT APPEARS CITIES -AS POINTED WITH HER NAMES....?-
HOWEVER CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR EXTRAORDINARY GOOGLE EARTH ,
SINCERELY,
BEST REGARDS GUYS!
Posted by: enrique antonio at March 18, 2007 11:25 AM
It really should be the univers as a whole.
Start fromt he sun and go to the start of time.
It should also have a good update period. So we can see our space station and anything else that may pass thru our univers. That would be good TV viewing. we are all prett tired of our currant choice of TV viewing I am sure lol :P I'd love to wake up and flick on the sunrise over the Earth :)
Posted by: olivia at April 5, 2007 10:37 AM
You should be able to see all the planets....not just Saturn....Don't get me wrong this is still cool but it would be awsome to see all the planets!!!!
Posted by: Jackson Mock at July 10, 2007 11:39 AM
For all those who want to see more than a couple planets I suggest Celestia.
Posted by: Alex at August 14, 2007 7:46 PM
Please tell me if google earth has a live version,because the version I am using is an old one and shows places 24 months back
Posted by: adel saif at August 17, 2007 4:50 AM
hi i like this programe are you going to meke one with mars
Posted by: giuditta at May 16, 2008 9:15 AM
wow saturn is sooo cool i wish u could touch the rings
Posted by: paty at April 18, 2009 6:16 PM
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"I still think Google Earth should be extended to the rest of the universe"
Well it is called Google EARTH isn't it ;-)
But a Google Universe would be rather cool