Does exist a gadget that let me observe the earth from space?

Question

I've heard that there is a gadget that you can connect it to your computer and it allows you to observe any location of the world and zoom it till you can watch the people. Is it true? and where can I get it? Sorry about my spelling I'm studying English.

Answer 1

My father was recently retired from the military and through converstations I learned that some of the imagery gadgets ARE NOT a myth they are REAL.

You can read a license plate off a car in a foreign country, and get good enough facial definition to do cross referencing with nationwide databanks.

These devices are quite secret and the technology has not been released to the public (for obvious reasons). But they do exist - make no doubt about that!

Answer 2

Your interesting question needs a bit of refinement. There are decommisioned Cold War spy satellites (the Hubble space telescope is one, an old KH-11, for "Key Hole") but pointed outward instead) that lets you see objects such as people's backyards on google.earth dot com.

But if you wanted to see the planet Earth as an orb in space, there are satellites and probes that if/when are pointed back at Earth show us as well as the Moon. There is a famous picture that you've seen (it was a postage stamp, and on numerous inspirational business posters) taken from the Moon of a half-lit Earth during an Apollo mission, much like the Moon phases seen from our surface. Another, rarer picture shows the Earth-Moon system taken from the first Voyager probe and beamed back the picture when it was sent out to Saturn.

The asteroid and comet probes from several nations could send pictures back if they have optical cameras, which not all do, just spectrometers and such to see if what's coming at us is a snowball or a brick. Or a metal mountain.

Also if NASA management had half a brain they would realize that the taxpayers would better support their endeavours if they'd release things from their vaults such as the videos of Mars they've got from the first Viking lander in the 1970s, external spacewalks and too many others, but they have very little imagination which will result in their continued diminution. Think of it as Evolution in Action. But I digress.

Answer 3

Absolutely not true. I'm don't doubt that the government has that ability and can dedicate satellites to that task, but there is no public "gadget."

There are applications out there like Google Earth and NASA WorldWind that will allow you to view high resolution satellite photos of the Earth (zoomed in very closely in many places), but those are all still images. We do not have enough satellites out there to allow for live feeds of everywhere in the world.

Answer 4

not quite but you can zoom in that far to some locations like cities the website to download the program is google earth click the link and download the free version

Answer 5

Yes, the NOAA satellite network. You can see the images at their website, which updates every 15 minutes:

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

Answer 6

Here is simple English ..... No .. Google earth has photos mostly from airplanes and they are not very good resolution

Answer 7

Sir:

Google dot com has a software package that will allow
you to do exactly that. Check it out. That might be exactly what you are looking for.

Answer 8

It's called GoogleEarth