Google is releasing fresh imagery from Landsat 8 satellite and new processing techniques for sharper images in Google Earth, and Google Maps. Satellite images are often cloudy, but not always over the same place, so Google looked at millions of images and took the clearest pixels to stitch together this cloud-free image.

Landsat 8 captures images with greater detail, truer colors, and at a grater frequency-capturing twice as many images as Landsat 7 does every day.

In the new view of New York City, details like skyscrapers, building shadows, and baseball and softball fields in Central Park shine through.

The new imagery is now available across all Google's mapping products.