Satellite real time pictures??

Question

do you guys know abouta website to take satellite pictures , i mean not to see old pictures, but to take real time pictures

Answer 1

i don't know why (lots of) people think this kinda thing exists, too much watching that scene from 'men in black' i dare say.

indeed the technology does exist to do that (well streaming images i mean - not watching people like on a tv).

but only if you're the NSA cos it ain't gonna be dished out to just any old internet nuts...there's few 'sensible' uses for using streaming satellite feeds by the average person - they'd just spend all their time watching people. and that's creepy. and an invasion of privacy if anyone with a pc can spy on you.

also, the 'satellite' pictures on the 'net are not all necessarily taken by a satellite - lots of them are taken from planes and this is why most images are years old - it's not practical to have planes circling every inch of the globe continuously. even processing images of the entire earth (which is quite big by the way) from a satellite network is timeconsuming and massively expensive.

the long and short of it is, the general public get a watered down version of what is possible using satellites, both for cost, legal reasons, and because china and other countries would NEVER allow that kinda invasion into their country by the mostly american satellite owners.

Answer 2

There isn't a service that takes live pictures. Even Google Earth uses old satellite imagery.

Answer 3

1. black_ca is correct: http://earth.google.com/

2. Don't dispair. Google is constantly updating the satellite views, that's why the patching effect.

3. There are others.

Answer 4

http://www.earth.google.com
http://www.terraserver.com

Answer 5

http://earth.google.com/