indigo_wolf
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Low pass by UFO caught by Google satellites
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Expect it will be gone in the next map refresh, but it was still kind of cool coming across it. ;-)
http://goo.gl/maps/5ymxs
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Google has satelites? :o
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Likely glare from some reflective roof/solar panel.
(tho it's said that Google will photoshop out any anomalies they find in the aerial pix)  |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lad
Likely glare from some reflective roof/solar panel.
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More than likely.... I just thought it was serendipitously cool because at most zoom levels, you can't see it. And I was just cruising through the
area using the mouse to zoom and pan when I came across it.
@ Kam: Google is the second major partner with GeoEye and has an exclusive contract as far as using imagery for online mapping.
GeoEye-1 which weighs in at 4,300-pounds, cruising 423 miles above the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
picked up half of the $502 million dollar tab on the satellite and commited to purchasing imagery the satellite.
GeoEye-2 was scheduled to launch in early 2013.
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Yes that is what we call Bright Target Return [BTR] and in this case it has also saturated the sensor such that there is bleed -over effect on the
neighboring sensors/ pixels.
Digital Globe also provide quite a bit of imagery to Google and at the higher zoom levels, particularly in urban areas, there is still quite a bit of
aerial imagery.
-your friendly local GeoEye employee 
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Is there anything we can't find out by posting it to the forum?:bouncy:
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| Quote: | Originally posted by WIllardTheGrey
Is there anything we can't find out by posting it to the forum?:bouncy: |
The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?!?  
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| Quote: | Originally posted by indigo_wolf
| Quote: | Originally posted by WIllardTheGrey
Is there anything we can't find out by posting it to the forum?:bouncy: |
The air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?!?
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42.3 mph :smug:;-)
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thats a rerun ! good one !
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| Quote: | Originally posted by WIllardTheGrey
Is there anything we can't find out by posting it to the forum?:bouncy: |
now that I think of it, should a kite that is RTF have a leash included?
couldn't' resist.(this discussion was even out on the beach yesterday)
But you are right about your question.:wee:
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