Google June 14 began launching the latest version of its Google Earth and paid professional Google Earth Pro applications, adding an integrated Web browser, support for Apple's iPad tablet and other utilities.

Downloaded by more than 700 million people around the world, Google Earth is a free desktop application that lets users search for satellite images of maps, terrain and buildings, from the depths of the oceans to the reaches of outer space.

Google Earth 5.2, which is rolling out gradually this week, sports an embedded Web browser to let users search the Web without clicking on a link to open it in a full Web page. Now when users click the link, the browser pane appears on the screen.

See what the browser pane looks like in this blog post, along with pictures of the other new features.