View of Earth from a satellite

[mwgiii]

Neat site to see what Earth looks like from a satellite in space.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/satellite.html

 

[mdonnelly]

Holy cow! Looks like the West coast must need to point at the ground to see Rainbow-1.

 

[TuxCoder]

Cool. After zooming in on the view from Galaxy 10R, I saw my dish on my house and it was ever so slightly off in one direction, must fix tonight when I get home.

On a sorta related note, for those who haven't seen yet, here are some other sites with views of the earth from satellites:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com (free)
or
http://www.terraserver.com (pay)

 

[korsjs]

cool sites. thanks.

 

[Juan]

Here's another one www.maps.google.com You can type in a specific address on this one!!

 

[DarrellP]

Holy cow! Looks like the West coast must need to point at the ground to see Rainbow-1.

Yep, my azimuth is 11.5 degrees and the dish is pointing down.

 

[PILMAN]

Do the satellites have an onboard camera or something?

 

[charper1]

While there are a few satellites (like shown at TerraServer) that have photographic capabilities I am almost 100% sure these are predictive mapping models based on years of photos and mapping.

 

[TuxCoder]

Here's a slick alternative to the terraserver & ms-terraserver satellite imaging I just found today.

http://maps.google.com

At any time you are looking at a drawn map, you can click "Satellite" in the upper right corner and it will show you the equivalently zoomed & "origined" satellite image of the drawn map. The satellite image is in color as an added bonus (terraserver.com is in color but is a pay service). Continual kudos & gratitude to the Google folks!

 

[TuxCoder]

Oops, didn't see juan's post above.

Anyways, my post is still value-added since it mentions the nifty switch-between-map-and-satellite feature. That, along with the rest of the user interface on that site, is very "Hollywood" as I would say.

 

[SatinKzo]

Yep, my azimuth is 11.5 degrees and the dish is pointing down.

Huh? You live in south america?

 

[Cyclone]

Boy, that 157 slot for Echostar 4 appears nearly worthless. It looks like its only good for Hawaii and not much else. I know it can serve the West Coast, but it look very low there too. Like 61.5.