We all know that Google Earth represents some of the best satellite imaging technology available to modern man today--at least to the ordinary modern man today--and can take you places you never even dreamed of seeing and show them to you right on your computer screen. Well, out in the Pacific Ocean, there's a gigantic pile ...
Well, this is a game changer, make no mistake about THAT one. There is water on Mars, so says the University of Arizona. Check out the specifics: The UA-run Phoenix Mars lander scraped the surface of our planetary neighbor to verify the presence of frozen water on Mars and now cameras orbiting above the red planet have ...
Man, you've got to love those crazy kids at MIT...what won't they do next? What they did do this time around was show up NASA like there was no tomorrow. While the beleaguered space agency is whining and complaining about how they can't get enough money, a group of kids at MIT is blowing them out ...
Check out this positively awesome picture from space, which wends its way to us via the NOAA satellite systems. It's a shot of Hurricane Jimena as it cruises over the Baja peninsula. Now, considering that, by the looks of that thing It's at least the SIZE of the Baja Peninsula, and quite possibly double the size ...
Chances are you've never even HEARD of the Timor Sea. I know I hadn't, at least until I got this absolutely incredible photo from Nasa's Earth Observatory. But anyway, this little area northwest of Australia (so hello to all the Aussie readers out there who are no doubt having a great laugh at the stupid American ...
This'll just KILL you, folks--by now you've probably heard about the huge California wildfire that's only about five percent contained and looking to make a run on Los Angeles. Well, here's the most unbelievable and most horrifying detail about it all. It can be SEEN FROM SPACE. Over one hundred thousand acres in size, pictures from Nasa's ...
In case you love those Google Earth satellite pictures taking from way up there then you’re probably wondering what a military satellite is capable of. Well, the aerospace and defense manufacturer Raytheon has announced that it has created a 16-megapixel infrared sensor which will be able to watch an entire half of our beloved planet ...
The GeoEye-1 is a satellite controlled by the military but it's operated by Google. Probably. It has the highest resolution camera on Earth and it has taken its first picture. I guess we are ready for the next Google Earth version, aren't we? Images are great, as you can see up here. Do you recognize the ...
