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Satellite Easter Eggs
TheChocolatay writes "Wired has a story on hidden finds in satellite images. They range from sporting events to natural disasters to bombs and firefights in Iraq. Some very interesting and cool pictures." From the article: "Part of it is that we collect so much imagery that a lot of times no eyes have seen a lot of this stuff,...And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine."
that this is similar a bit to Google Sightseeing
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BBcode on the brain. Real linky.
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Sure, Google Maps is great if you want your route overlayed on the images, but for finding easter eggs it's nothing special.
Here are some google sightseeing sites- mine first, of course!
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http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/
www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
cryptome.org/usndc-eyeball.htm
del.icio.us/knodi/google_maps
www.returnofdesign.com/feature.php?article=12
gmaps.nicj.net/
-ted
"Google site-seeing":
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
Cool to see planes in the air
on some days, it's cloudy, &c. -- someone has to go through all of the satalite pics and find nice, clear images to piece together into the mosaic that you see, when you go to the site. if those picking and choosing have e.g. five shots of Ann Arbor, three of them on a clear day, and one of them with the UM cheerleaders running the "naked mile"... *that*'s how you get the "Easter Eggs".
Hitler Youth had planted some trees in the Black Forest which changed color earlier in the autumn showing a very large swastika from the air. It was in Time or something several years ago. The article indicated many of the trees would be cut down.
A shame, it's not like the trees had done anything wrong...
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Here is area 51, really: Area 51
I TUDE
A plane taking off at SFO
Edwards, with two SR-71 Blackbird
Niagara Falls
Norfolk, with two aircraft carrier
Mount St-Helens
Hollywood, litterally
To find the picture of a particular position, use:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&z=3&ll=LATTITUDE,LONG
LATTITUDE and LONGITUDE in degree (like 100.003441).
Enjoy!
Nope, not a shadow... I see it too.
1 92218,-123.255937&spn=0.005600,0.007510&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=vancouver,bc&ll=49.
Nice! The entire site is down!
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In 1996, the US Congress passed the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act. That law says that the US government may not license an American remote sensing company to collect or disseminate imagery of Israel at a better resolution than what is generally available from remote sensing companies in other countries, i.e. 2 meters.
Google bought Keyhole. Keyhole brought you those cool satellite photos of Baghdad and Afghanistan on CNN the past couple years. I'm pretty sure Baghdad and Afghanistan aren't in the US.
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And the Whitehouse isn't blurred but the roof is has been 'cleaned' off
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+DC&ll=38
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If you look at the URL, you'll notice the location is Groom Lake, NV. Groom Lake is a location commonly used to test "black aircraft" (experimental, spy, etc). If you do a bit of research on the name, you'll find a number of books referencing aircraft tests there in the last 50 years. The fact that the planes operated there are mostly experimental accounts for an abnormally long airstrip (in case of mishaps). The whole location is actually just an old dried up lake bed, which is ideally flat for aircraft operations. Lockheed's Skunk Works worked out of Groom Lake several times, though the names of the specific projects escape me.
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You want a high definition sat image of Area 51? Your wish is my command.
While I don't know whether this is a before or after picture, I can tell you that it was taken Aug 18th, 2003 18:36:19. I'll leave the rest of the exercise to the reader. :)
Cheers,
Twilight1
The runway at Edwards is considerably longer. It's 7-1/2 miles from end to end.
And for the record, Groom Lake was publicly acknowledged years ago. No mystery there. It's just an Air Force base.
It's not the orbit height or the speed, it's basic physics. Assuming you have some satellite with a 3m lens in orbit at 400km. We use visible light that is on average about 500nm wavelength. The minimum resolvable angle for a circular lens is theta = 1.22*lambda/D, which comes out to be, 203*10^-9, so the absolute maximum resolution is about 8cm via some trig, and more like at least twice that because of atmospheric effects.
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