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April 17, 2005
Way cool stuff from a great height
Previous entry on this topic here.An enterprising blogger took advantage of the new Google map feature to post satellite photos of notable sites, like, oh, CIA headquarters, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Unisphere, Area 51, and lots of airplanes in flight.
I submitted the WTC site but he hasn't used it yet.
And of course I had to plug in the major residential milestones of my life.
Coppedge Lane, Dallas TX. (I forget the address; we moved when I was 10.)
11330 Valleydale Dr, Dallas TX.
2234 Fitzwater St, Philadephia PA.
2501 Little John Lane, Austin TX.
235 W 56th St, New York, NY.
You can zoom out farther at NASA's visible Earth site, which is more about natural features than man-made structures.
And even farther with NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. (Do you feel like you're in a Charles Eames movie yet?)
Here's the moon a few days ago.
Which photo was taken on earth and which on Mars?
Saturn's moon Mimas set off by multiple rings.
Two spiral galaxies colliding.
Last December I linked to a blogger working at McMurdo Station in Antarctica talking about the Long Island-sized iceberg that crashed into the ice shelf there and temporarily disrupted the local ecosystem. Here's an animation of that event.
Okay, zooming back in: This futuristic hotel in Dubai has its own helipad, about 700 ft. off the ground (that little round green thing in the photos). And on that helipad was installed a tennis court. And in February a couple of tennis stars played on it and gaped at the view.
Tiger Woods hit some golf balls off the same helipad last year. (Don't scroll through the successively zoomed photos if you suffer from agoraphobia.)
Your go-to site on large human-engineered structures.
Judith | 04/17/05 at 06:57 AM | Categories: - Amazing things
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Hey, check out my Google Maps directory as well:http://gmaps.nicj.net
Nic Jansma | April 17, 2005 12:56 PM
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