Around the world, via burning oil fields, topless sunbathers and Area 51...
By Will Sturgeon, 6 November 2006 17:50
Nellis Air Force base, Nevada - better known to UFO conspiracy theorists as Area 51. On this image you can clearly make out the multiple runways where planes such as the B2 Stealth Bomber were tested.
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1. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary
How much time did Will spend scrolling across images of the Hague looking for a woman sunbathing on her roof? We should be told...
2. Don Tregartha
Thanks Will, for a glorious waste of time!
3. anonymous
are you completely sick? 90% of all self-announced "the best of google earth" is actually in the UK (according to you)? wake up and travel the world. (Ed note. Are you sure? I think you'll find it is closer to 30 per cent... clearly you are not a maths teacher, or heaven help the kids you teach if you are.)
4. Dave Harcourt
surely the mysterious green circles are center pivot irrigated fields
5. AJL
FYI:
Nellis Air Force Base =/= Area 51
6. anonymous
You could only manage to put one photo per page?
7. anonymous
The only thing missing from this story is a KML file with all the places, so that we could all view them in Google Earth or Google Maps...
8. stijn v.
That image from the Versaille gardens (21) looks more like an early Mikey Mouse if you ask me.
9. EatingPie
The circles look like agricultural growth. In Arizona an Central Valley satellite photos you see the same thing. The automated sprinkler systems roll across the fields in a circle, creating these circles of crops (not to be confused with crop circles!).
10. anonymous
Civilian vs MilitaryTechnology
So if this is what is commercially available, - just how close can the military go???? - Read the watch on your wrist?
11. sandeep z george
where are the 2 major things i expected to see in this collection
1. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
2. TAJ MAHAL OF INDIA
(Ed note. They are in China and India respectively.)
12. Chris
Nellis AFB is in Las Vegas itself. The base known as Area 51 is actually Groom Lake.
As a side note...I had an aeronautics professor who used to work there as a test pilot when he was in the service. He said there's a big poster in the hangars that says when the satellites are going over, so they know when to pull everything off the ramp so pictures can't be taken...
13. anonymous
You might already have this up your editorial sleeves, but might be worth asking readers to submit their own best views from Google Earth - could be anything - and then edit these together as a follow up piece. Can we do better? We should be allowed to find out!
(Ed note. Any contributions would be welcome.)
14. Erik
How do you like this "face" i found in Caucasus Mountains in Russia:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sochi,+russia&ll=43.90754,40.410461&spn=0.119223,0.340576&t=h
(Ed note. We love it Erik.)
15. John H Woods
There's a better plane-in-the-air shot over Haweswater, Huntingdon, UK.
I think it's a WWII Lancaster flying on a battle of Britain memorial site.
John
PS: what about the Arlesberg bug?
16. Sally
Strange that the shot of Microsoft headquarters should look like a PCB
17. anonymous
That is the Devils's Punchbowel and Gibbet Hill at Hindhead.
18. anonymous
The building group is on neither North Island nor Coronado; it is on the Naval Amphibious Base down the Silver Strand from Coronado.
19. G807
cool place
awsome place
but
nerdy place