Follow an Ocean Expedition in Chile
Until March 10th, you can follow a ship traveling the ocean in Google Earth (turn on Places layer, search for "Salas y Gomez Island, Chile" and look for the blue ship icon). National Geographic and Oceana scientists in collaboration with the Chilean Navy are traveling on their next Mission Blue expedition to the remote Salas y Gomez Island. Learn about how you can follow this adventure at sea.

Explore our U.S. Presidents on a Map
To celebrate the U.S. Presidents holiday, we created a U.S. Presidents Showcase to map the birthplaces of all 44 presidents, and provide details about their presidential terms. You can also see the states that voted during each president's election and view a 3D tour of the White House. In addition to the U.S. Presidents map, educators can use some of our other resources in their classroom to explore more aspects of history.

New Features in Building Maker
Building Maker is a tool for people who want to add 3D models of their communities to Google Earth. With well over 100 cities to choose from—and more on the way—our dedicated geo-modeling web app is growing quickly. Two of our favorite new features this month are biggies: Markers show what's already been modeled, making it easier to see where to focus your efforts. The Duplicate feature lets you model repetitive building forms in record time.

Tour Museums with Google Art Project
Explore museums around the world with the Google Art Project, a collaboration between Google and 17 acclaimed museums. Select works of art chosen by these partners are now available for you to explore through Street View in Google Maps, and the Art Project site offers an immersive experience to explore museum information, floor plans, more than 1000 high-resolution pieces, and Street View imagery. (Pictured above: The American Wing 1, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Expanded Google Earth Pro Data Layers
Since data layers were launched in Google Earth Pro, there has been a strong and steady growth in use. To make the data even more valuable to our users, we're providing greater geospatial coverage for U.S. Parcel Data, U.S. Daily Traffic Counts, and U.S. Demographic Data. Learn more about the data layers in this blog post.

New and Updated Imagery
This month we added new and updated imagery, including high-resolution aerial updates for the USA, Ireland, UK and Switzerland. Many countries also received high-resolution satellite updates, including Angola, Brazil, Greece, Zambia, Costa Rica, Russia, Venezuela, Thailand, Uruguay, and more. Take a look at these changes and many more in our update post here, or view this file directly in Google Earth. Don't forget you can use the View > Historical Imagery option to see imagery choices through the time slider.