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Ever wonder what your home, neighborhood, etc., looks like from a satellite in space? Click on this link and you can see it right down to the trees in your yard.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

It took me a few minutes to get to my house because although the software put me in the general area everything looked so different. It's a lot better if you do this with a high speed connection.

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Re... and most of the pics are pretty dated.


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Ummm...how much detail can they see? Say, like for example you were building something in your backyard that you didnt want the goverment to find out about.

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LOL, they don't get too close. Like I used to closest setting for our house now, and I could see almost the whole street.


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Yep, they can see that... and read small writing on whatever it is probably.


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What are the other sites that are like this?


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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Yep, they can see that... and read small writing on whatever it is probably.




Drat! But that does explain why that white van with the big antennas has been parked outside my house for the last few weeks.

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Originally posted by todras:
Re... and most of the pics are pretty dated.




Is it 1 meter resolution? Anyway, yeah, my house pic is from 1996, last I checked.


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Originally posted by RoadiJeff:
Ever wonder what your home, neighborhood, etc., looks like from a satellite in space? Click on this link and you can see it right down to the trees in your yard.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

It took me a few minutes to get to my house because although the software put me in the general area everything looked so different. It's a lot better if you do this with a high speed connection.





AFAIK, those are commercial aerial surveliance photos, not satelite images. "They" could get much better resolution if they wanted too


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Yup -

"TerraServer contains 3.3 tera-bytes of high resolution USGS aerial imagery"


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