Great Res. I see the Stratosphere Tower is now missing. You can still see it in Google Maps though.
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Nice, hairspray. You can almost see the number plates on the cars :)

I think I might have found out why this update has come online.

Open your temporary places and double-click.

I can see the high resolution around Las Vegas. I cannot see the top of the Luxor hotel as in the above picture. I restarted my computer and restarted gearth, but still cannot see anything. Anyone else having this problem?

http://tinyurl.com/py6f5

Not too recent, as I was there in February and the Wynn was open. In the above linked shot, it's not even built yet.

Robert, your tinyurl link is showing imagery in Google Maps. The new high resolution imagery mentioned in the article is ONLY in Google Earth.

I guess what happens in Vegas no longer stays in Vegas :)

Any thoughts on why the stratosphere was removed? I was hoping to make out the frightened faces on the roller coaster.

Maybe next time they can send the sat. over while there are actually people hanging out by the pool! ;)

there is a roller coaster circling the "new york" place ..... you just can't see faces... resolution isn't that good

are these sat pics or photos from plane?

The reason is because of the AP story from 2 days ago talking about how great the imagery used by windows live local is.

I'm sure it is, anyway.

Very cool stuff.

Hey, The reason may be because they want some "before" shots before the gov't sets off the mushroom cloud over LV. if you don't know what i'm talking about, it's a just a test explosion, that i read on digg, i forget the link though, sorry.

So, the stratosphere is missing...BUT you can see its shadow on the ground north of where it should be. That is very bizzare!

"Hey, The reason may be because they want some "before" shots before the gov't sets off the mushroom cloud over LV. if you don't know what i'm talking about, it's a just a test explosion, that i read on digg, i forget the link though, sorry."

I read that article too... wonder if Google thinks the government is going to fudge their text explosion up and take out parts of vegas??? Would be useful for insurance purposes if that did happen and then google could get back at the government for invading their servers!!

nice!!!

The missing Stratosphere was probably taken by the same aliens who stole the planes leaving the Dallas Airport and left their shadows behind on Grapevine Lake.

Very neat, but the hotels at the corner of Paradise Rd. and Riviera Blvd. look really tweaked. :-)

Strange that the Paris Balloon is missing as well, some wierd dinosaur looking thing in its place!