Literally, yes you can, on that specific website’s satellite imagery. Bloody thing’s over 10 km wide, it’s the size of a large city. I can still easily spot it on my screen if I zoom far enough out to also include Edinburgh and Riyad!
The only way not to see it from space would be to look in the wrong place or when it is cloudy.
Probably, but the entire idea of “you can see it from space” is stupid anyways. Its only meaningful if its with the naked eye and the distance is specified. You can see anything from space if you have enough optical zoom…
Satellites have adequate resolution for imaging large areas with high coverage, but aside of stuff like spy satellites they don’t usually image smaller areas in high resolution all that well. Most of the closer up images on places like Google Maps are aerial photos.
I’m in Finland and when Google Maps first launched we only got low resolution satellite images and some aerial photos of a few cities. The difference was pretty clear.
You can see it from space
No, you can’t. This is what earth looks like from space… https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ most of google maps uses airplane aerial shots.
Literally, yes you can, on that specific website’s satellite imagery. Bloody thing’s over 10 km wide, it’s the size of a large city. I can still easily spot it on my screen if I zoom far enough out to also include Edinburgh and Riyad!
The only way not to see it from space would be to look in the wrong place or when it is cloudy.
What am I looking at? The white dot?
Those photos are from planes.
Probably, but the entire idea of “you can see it from space” is stupid anyways. Its only meaningful if its with the naked eye and the distance is specified. You can see anything from space if you have enough optical zoom…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
Naw, there’s theoretical a maximum resolution, iirc it’s a few centimeters. Too much air in the way diffracting the light
Planes? I had always assumed it was satellites.
Satellites have adequate resolution for imaging large areas with high coverage, but aside of stuff like spy satellites they don’t usually image smaller areas in high resolution all that well. Most of the closer up images on places like Google Maps are aerial photos.
I’m in Finland and when Google Maps first launched we only got low resolution satellite images and some aerial photos of a few cities. The difference was pretty clear.
In the bottom middle of the screen it tells you the surveyor. At least it used to I haven’t checked in a while.
You can see people’s backyard trampolines.
I counted 8 of them on site.