Google earth. Has 3D buildings, and closer images than that of NASA, including a preset Area 51

Still in beta, and limited numbers available, search google earth in google or if your lazy clicky



[Edited on 5/7/05 by Tim 45]

Jesus - I am impressed!

Wow !

Very good. The images arn't the highest resolution available. I remember seeing some last year where I zoomed in and could see my Landrover outside my house ! A benefit of living near London !
When they mapped the country, they did London and the other cities to a greater detail depth.

In 3D mode, its incredible
Rescued attachment Everest.jpg

Yup,,,, Landsat is down to 1.0metre per Pixel. This means you can see Cars but not people. Landsat is a commercially run satellite.

So if a company can run a eye in the spy (or was it Sky?)
What do the Military and gov't spy sats run at resolution wise. You can bet your bottom dollar they can nearly count the hairs on your head, assuming your are neither bald, or wearing a hat

I have played with Weather satellites for nearly 20 years ie tracking them using my aerials, and downloading the data and images. All quite legal as I am registered with the ESA and the Euro met office etc etc.

My best picture, and I didnt realise it, I thought I had a memory malfunction, was a picture taken of a pass over Chernobyl. I got a HUGE BLACK BLOB on my picture and scaling it up it was 100 miles or more in diameter. ALL BLACk was very hot (I have reverse Imagery then). I thought I had a malfunction on my hardware computer... NO software, just decoded the signals and read them straight into the memory, then read the memory between the write cycles and displayed it on the monitor.

This was Chernobyl Gone Bang... two days before it hit the papers / TV / Press.
I dont think we have ever been told the real truth about just how bad it was and how it affected us.

Anyway... getting away from the subject...

Yes they are WOW!!... and there is much better imaging stuff floating around up there!!.

I addicted to this thing now!

34°07' 55.48"N
118°19' 12.14"W

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