Thread: Google maps, satellite images of interesting places

Hey!
I thought it would be cool to post links to interesting places on Earth.

Go to Google, click "maps" and choose "satellite". You can then zoom in or out and see some pretty amazing things.

Once you've found a place, to post the link, click on "link to this page" and copy and paste the code here.

I'll give it a test.


This is the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico:

Arecibo radio telescope

And here is Niagara Falls:

Niagara Falls

Here is the Hoover Dam:

Hoover Dam

Here is the Statue of Liberty:
(Make sure you are looking at the satellite image....)

Statue of Liberty

You can avoid the super long links if you type

Code:

example text

How about the Cerne Abbas Giant.
Read about him here

Cool!

Here's Meteor Crater in Arizona:

Meteor Crater

Stonehenge

pyramids at Giza

The beautiful Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe

Area 51!!

The truth is in there, somewhere...

Edit: I believe the earlier link didn't work. Perhaps this will.

Those islands made to look like trees in Dubai

Originally Posted by sunshinewarrio

Edit: I believe the earlier link didn't work. Perhaps this will.

No, it worked fine, and on zooming in it proved what I've always suspected. Area 51 is Scunthorpe.

Kennedy Space Center, Florida


you can see a shuttle and a rocket in this photo

You can see some naval ships in this view of Pearl Harbor, although I was hoping I could see the sunken Arizona. Either it is obscured by the water, or my location skills aren't that good....

Did you really need a separate post for each of these?

Originally Posted by william

You can see some naval ships in this view of Pearl Harbor, although I was hoping I could see the sunken Arizona. Either it is obscured by the water, or my location skills aren't that good....

Anyway, it's not far from where the PH marker lands. Southeast of the central island in the harbor, just off of Langley Ave. Can't miss it. All you can see (aside from the big white memorial building, is a faint outline and one of the turret tracks (big circle).

Originally Posted by Wolf

Did you really need a separate post for each of these?

Originally Posted by william

You can see some naval ships in this view of Pearl Harbor, although I was hoping I could see the sunken Arizona. Either it is obscured by the water, or my location skills aren't that good....

Anyway, it's not far from where the PH marker lands. Southeast of the central island in the harbor, just off of Langley Ave. Can't miss it. All you can see (aside from the big white memorial building, is a faint outline and one of the turret tracks (big circle).

I see it now! Thanks!
the Arizona
At about 57 seconds into this video, you see the Arizona take the fatal hit.


I could go back and put all these links into one post and delete the rest, but I've been adding them at different times. I too normally discourage multiple posts, but I didn't really see the harm here, since it's not like this thread is one of discussion, but rather just a submission of links. And posting a new link in a new post as opposed to adding it to an edited post brings attention to the forum members that a new one was added (in case anyone cares to look).

Would it be better to go back and condense these into fewer posts?

Cheers,
william

Fermilab

Slac (Stanford Linear Accelerator)

How 'bout this...

Anyone see it?

I've actually been to this. It's amazing.