why cant google earth focus clearly on some spots?
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Some of the sattelites Google has been forced to use are quite old, but new imagery is being collected every day. Eventually there will be new high resolution pictures of the whole surface of the planet. I know a guy who is writing messages on his roof so he can see them in the sattelite pictures...he's kind of a nutjob.
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Google Earth is pretty amazing. I once checked to see if there was a satellite image of my city, and I was able to zoom in so far, that I could make out my car in the parking lot of my apartment!
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for the same reason you can't see the edge of the earth, the moon, or the sun
123424
you can just go to google earth.
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Try google earth:\nhttp://earth.google.com/
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Google maps:  Google Earth.
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google earth is a good program
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some of them have sensitivity settings.  you would have to check the preferences
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Go to GoogleEarth.com
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Try Google Earth- it allows you to zoom in and out of cities. Terraserver(google it) is better than Google, it takes images from different sources and qualities. However, I like Keyhole. it has 3 levels- the "dinky" free version, the plus($30 a year)- more detailed and the ultra, the $500 one timer that lets you see as close up as a birds nest in someones backyard(ideal for engineers). Depends for your uses.
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Download Google Earth from\n http://earth.google.com\nIt is awesome
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Google Earth!!! Get it, install it! It's Free! It's awesome!!
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Most if not all Google earth photos are outdated and therefor do not represent the areas as they are now. Most military bases are "fogged". If you only knew how much better satellite images are for the military and intelligence organizations it would probably scare you. At least give you that tingly feeling like when someone is watching you from across a room. Big daddy is always watch at the speed of light in real time, not outdated photos like you have access to. The government sees everything. So no it is not an illegal spying machine, but a neat tool for every day people.
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this should help             http://earth.google.com/
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You won't be able to for a couple of reasons:\n\n1) Resolution - the best quality images aren't good enough to make out things much smaller than cars.  The only way you can see that there are people in the pictures are if their shadows are long enough to give away their position. There is no way you are going to see a dog.\n2) Google Earth is not real-time. The images are between one and three years old.  Unless the dog was on your lawn at the time the image was taken, you will never see it, even if the resolution was good enough.
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Google Earth---check it out!! it is so cool!!
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Google Earth and click on satelite map. Don't forget to put in your address