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Satellite Easter Eggs

Posted by Zonk on from the hi-mom! dept.

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."

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  1. Uhhh... by alwsn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and even a 747 landing in Tokyo, something difficult to capture given that the satellite is moving at 17,000 mph.

    Yes, I am often amazed that I'm able to jump on Earth while moving at 29.77 km/s*.


    *Speed of the Earth in Orbit

  2. Re:Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps? by harks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I looked up my house on Terraserver, it is not color and not as closely zoomed in as Google Maps. The image was also from 1991, I'm not sure when Google's pictures are from, but I know they are newer by the buildings around. Also, Google Maps makes it easier to scroll around by click and drag than clicking up, left, up, over and over.