Google Earth doens't, just old snapshots. Im talking live views of street level activity, is this even possible? Would be so fascinating.
2007-10-17 09:54:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Closeup pictures live all the time is impossible. Weather satellites are almost live, but they don't show small detail.
To get detail good enough to show cars requires a big lens or telescope pointing at the ground from a LOW orbit. Like 200 or 300 miles up. The low orbit means 2 things. 1, you can't hover over one spot; you are always moving rapidly over the ground. You only pass over a given spot once every few days. 2, from that close you can only see a small area at a time, maybe a hundred miles wide or whatever.
Weather satellites are in geostationary orbit, 22,000 miles up. They can hover in one place forever and see continents and large scale cloud patterns, but not small things like buildings or cars.
2007-10-17 10:05:50 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't see why there wouldn't be something. After all, we do have satellite TV, beamed to us via space. And the internet gets piped through satellites as well, which is why you can view any website anywhere in the world at any time. To actually find what you are looking for I would suggest trying the global weather sites, since these use the latest satellite images of the planet on a daily basis.
2016-05-23 04:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by iva 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NASA.com is the closest you'll get.
2007-10-17 18:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋