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originally posted by: Helenamatias
In the 1930's, Nazis exploring the southern extremities of the globe set up a base(called base-211) in Antarctica.
According to a statement by Grand Admiral Donitz in 1943, “the German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Führer, in another part of the world, a Shangri-La land, an impregnable fortress."
If the fortress was in Antarctica, was it built by the Nazis, or discovered there?
originally posted by: Rocker2013
a reply to: Helenamatias
I really don't know what the hell people are seeing in these images, all I see is entirely natural ice/rock formations completely lacking any evidence of Human involvement.
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Helenamatias
I think these are pretty interesting.
But I'd really just like to know why a satellite can't orbit above both poles for pics to use on Google Earth? Why must it be a distortion of sliced and stretched out images at both poles?
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Helenamatias
I think these are pretty interesting.
But I'd really just like to know why a satellite can't orbit above both poles for pics to use on Google Earth? Why must it be a distortion of sliced and stretched out images at both poles?
Because whatever satellite images they're using aren't polar orbiters?
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: Helenamatias
I think these are pretty interesting.
But I'd really just like to know why a satellite can't orbit above both poles for pics to use on Google Earth? Why must it be a distortion of sliced and stretched out images at both poles?
Because whatever satellite images they're using aren't polar orbiters?
I get that. I just wonder why they can't get pics from satellites that do orbit the poles.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: Bedlam
Probably true as Google are not going to pay top dollar for there data, still the NOAA, METEOR and also the TIROS weather satellites do or did have polar orbits as well as low relative altitude so that they could image the cloud's more clearly so it stand's to reason there is imagery out there even if we don't see it very often.
Shame it has been commercialized so much you used to be able to look at satellite imagery for much of the earth free though it was far more work than zooming in on a google earth map.