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Google Earth and Google Maps allow you to take a closer look at our planet from space. The satellite
images are really impressive and you can easily get addicted to them. Please find below a collection of direct links to some of the most interesting
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| 31.05.2008 |
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Luand ship in trouble - Capsized ship in the harbour of Luana. |
| 31.05.2008 |
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Cruiser Prinz Eugen - Capsized over Enubuj reef, Marshall Islands. |
| 13.04.2008 |
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NYC roof airport - Tiny airport marked 77 on a NYC skyscraper.. |
| 13.04.2008 |
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Amazing dunes - Saudi Arabia's desert features those stunning dunes. |
| 13.04.2008 |
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Apollo Moon Shuttle - This looks like an Apollo Moon Shuttle in Philadelphia. |
| 13.04.2008 |
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Shwedagon Pagoda - 60 tons of gold covering this building in Yangon. |
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| 03.02.2008 |
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Container ship in the Suez Canalt - Quite a lot of container here... |
| 02.02.2008 |
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Iranian Nuclear Power Plant - Near Bushehr at the Persian Gulf. |
| 05.01.2008 |
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Arecibo observatory - Arguably the world's most famous observatory. |
| 05.01.2008 |
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Lake in the desert - Amazing lake in the middle of the desert in Libya. |
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| 26.12.2007 |
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Aircraft carrier on a lake - Hmm, not exactly where you would expect it to be.. |
| 26.12.2007 |
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Sahara vs. Road - And the winner after all will be? |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Samsung plant Korea - Doesn't look good for this aircraft at Addis Abeba. |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Area 51: Helicopter? - Doesn't look good for this aircraft at Addis Abeba. |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Kentucky Fried Chicken - Doesn't look good for this aircraft at Addis Abeba. |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Victoria Falls - Doesn't look good for this aircraft at Addis Abeba. |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Aircraft with a problem - Doesn't look good for this aircraft at Addis Abeba. |
| 25.12.2007 |
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Merry Christmas - I wish to all visitors of my site a Merry Christmas. *Andreas* |
| 16.12.2007 |
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Mauricio Báez bridge - As of early 2007 it is actually completedy. |
| 16.12.2007 |
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Kim Il Sung's villa - Looks like a spot where they could take a Bond movie. |
| 16.12.2007 |
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Confusing highway here - Don't get anything wrong on this highway. |
| 15.12.2007 |
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Russian Aircraft Carrier - This one has gone alongside near Murmansk. |
| 09.12.2007 |
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Ryugyong Hotel - The uncompleted huge pyramid style hotel in North Corea. |
| 09.12.2007 |
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Buran parking - Sad to see where the Russians park "their space shuttle". |
| 08.12.2007 |
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Miami approach - Aircraft approaching Miami airport, flying over the city. |
| 08.12.2007 |
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Wainwright Alaska - NORAD site to be closed due to global warming. |
| 08.12.2007 |
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Bullen Point Radar - Global warming taking out this NORAD site. |
| 06.12.2007 |
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Tupolev TU-144 - Lignite strip mining with huge excavator (Germany). |
| 06.12.2007 |
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Lignite at Garzweiler - Lignite strip mining with huge excavator (Germany). |
| 06.12.2007 |
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Bird flying over a lake - Very close shot of this bird in Africa.. |
| 06.12.2007 |
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Surfers and a shark here? - Looks like a shark to me. Beach in Sydney. |
| 06.12.2007 |
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Ayer's rock - The famous sandstone in Australia also know as "Uluru". |
| 05.12.2007 |
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14000 ft runway - A 14000 ft runway when only two airlines come here? |
| 04.12.2007 |
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Sasol Secunda - Oil refinery producing syntetic fuels in South Africa. |
| 30.10.2007 |
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Storax Sedan - Nuclear bomb testing ground in Nevada. |
| 30.10.2007 |
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Hotel Burj Al Arab - Made on an artificial island in the Persian Gulf. |
| 25.10.2007 |
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As close as it can get - Life in the African Sahel area very very close. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Windmill Holland - The Dutch drew a windmill on a field here. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Herd of animals - Super high resolution closeup of animals in Africa. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Fishermen Close-up - Boat with fishermen off the coast of Mozambique. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Another animal here - This time near Folkestone in England. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Huge animal shape - White shape of a huge animal in the U.S. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Lion on the lawn - Shape of a huge lion on a field in England.. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Africa very closes - This is aerial, but imagine it were satellite imagery. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Famous star here - In the middle of the western United States. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Sunbathing in Holland - Scary! Imagine resolution were a little better! |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Tasteless architecture - Not exactly an adequate shape for a building. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Circles in the desert - Rings of circles surrounded by a triangle in the desert. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Indian symbol - Was it the Indians who put that symbol on the mountain? |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Letters on a field - Someone put letters on this field... |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Circles on a field - Strange circles on a field in the north of England. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Face in the rocks - Those rocks in the mountains in the U.S. look like a face. |
| 21.10.2007 |
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Strange field - Strange symbol on a field in Northern Italy. |
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| 02.09.2007 |
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Barnaul - Heavy industrial activity at Barnaul, Russia. |
| 02.09.2007 |
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DOMNA Airbase - Important Russian Airbase here. |
| 27.08.2007 |
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TU-160 Blackjack - Located at Engles airbase in Russia. |
| 26.08.2007 |
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St Maarten Airport - The one where aircraft come in at incredibly low height. |
| 26.08.2007 |
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Swindon U.K. - Huge parking lot in an industrial estate area. |
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| 26.08.2007 |
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N E W: From today you can enjoy the maps in a new way without a new window opening
for each location. Requirement is a 1280x1024+ pixel screen. |
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| 16.08.2007 |
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Okinawa Island? - Can you imagine what those six hills are for? |
| 14.08.2007 |
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In the middle of the desert - Just sand and nature, no human interference. |
| 14.08.2007 |
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Iranian airfield - Something tells me, this airbase could be crucial sometime. |
| 14.08.2007 |
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Masset, British Columbia - An interesting military location here. Echelon? |
| 14.08.2007 |
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Rota, Spain - An interesting and strange military location in Spain's south-west. |
| 13.08.2007 |
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GCHQ, Cheltenham, U.K. - Home to a British NSA/CIA or similar... |
| 13.08.2007 |
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Pine Gap, Australia - American/Australian "satellite tracking station" |
| 13.08.2007 |
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Vardo, Norway - Controversial home for Globus II, very north-east of Norway. |
| 13.08.2007 |
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Russian nuclear subs - Here are some russian nuclear subs near Murmansk. |
| 13.08.2007 |
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Ship with a problem - This ship near Murmansk seems to have a problem. |
| 12.08.2007 |
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands - In the Indian Ocean, port of Australia. |
| 16.08.2007 |
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Okinawa Island? - Can you imagine what those six hills are for? |
| 11.08.2007 |
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Pakistan - Got any idea what this is? Strange place isn't it?. |
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| 30.06.2007 |
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Hotel Alphen - The beautiful Hotel Alphen in South Africa from Space. |
| 03.05.2007 |
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Diomede Islands - The border between the U.S. and Russia. |
| 02.05.2007 |
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Tiksi Airbase - Russian airbase in the cold north of Siberia. |
| 02.05.2007 |
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Wake Island - Preparation for the ballistic missile defense on this ground? |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Houk Island, Pulusuk Atoll - Amazing little island with a big lake inside. |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Nukuoro Atoll - Lucky folks living on this beautiful atoll in the Pacific. |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Norfolk Island - Nice island in between Australia and New Zealand. |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Hydro Power - Concrete gravity-arch dam in the hills near Taipei City. |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Hangars inside the mountain - Very interesting airbase (Hualien City). |
| 30.04.2007 |
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River Delta - Amazing river delta in Papua New Guinea. |
| 30.04.2007 |
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Dream Islet - What a beautiful little island near Fiji in the Pacific. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Vila Maria Pia - Tiny airport in the north of Ilha de Santo Antao, Cape Verde. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Edwards AFB - At Edwards the desert converts into multiple runways. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Niagara Falls - Those impressive falls seen from space. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Kaliningrad shipyard - Warship construction site at Kaliningrad seaport. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Russian fighters - Lined up in rows on an airfield near Kaliningrad. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Coca Cola in St. Petersburg - Coca Cola Plant near St. Petersburg airport. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Sevastopol - The city that is still home to Russia's Black Sea fleet. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Chernobyl - The nuclear power plant sarcophagus in northern Ucraine. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Russian Airbase - Fighter Aircraft at Russian Airbase north-west of Irkutsk. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Siberia Highway - Highway through Siberia's forest close to Irkutsk. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Ulaanbaatar Power Plant - Power plant in Mongolia's capital. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Indian Navy in Mumbai - Carrier, warships and submarines in Mumbai. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Tristan da Cunha - The world's most isolated settlement in the South Atlantic. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Falklands - Stanley Airport on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Falklands - British Airbase on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. |
| 29.04.2007 |
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Dhakla - City in the south of Western Sahara situated on a peninsula. |
| 24.04.2007 |
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Dhaka - Heavy traffic on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
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| 20.01.2007 |
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Russian fighter aricraft close to the runway. |
| 20.01.2007 |
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Dead End Road -
Dead end road in the snow near Magadan, Russia |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Anchorage Seaplanes - Amazing sea port for sea planes here. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Cologne Cathedral -
Arguably the greatest cathedral on earth. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Tokyo Haneda -
The Tokyo Haneda International Airport. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Norfolk, VA - Navy seaport with 3 big aircraft carriers alongside. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Kaaba (Mekka) - The place of pilgrimage for Muslims from all over the world. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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The Pyramids - Space view on the ancient pyramids of Egypt. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Taj Mahal - The great monument located in Agra, India. |
| 08.01.2007 |
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Singapore -
Container Terminal. Wanna count some containers here? |
