Space Images

Satellite Images and Maps

• Google Maps - street maps and satellite images
• MSN Virtual Earth - street maps and satellite images, nice feature: location finder based on your IP Address
• TerraServer - topological maps and satellite images
• TerraServer -
• NASA Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth -
• NASA World Wind -
• Digital Globe -
• European Space Imaging -
• Space Imaging -
• ImageSat International -
• Erdsicht.de -
• GEOnet Names Server (GNS) -
• Map24 - maps
• Stadtplandienst - maps and images
• Stadtplandaten -
• MapMachine - from National Geographic

Interesting Images

Following are some famous and interesting places viewed from space with Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth. When the image is displayed you can change between map, satellite and hybrid (both combined) mode. There are also other sites like Google Sightseeing, Google Globe Trotting or Fun with Google Maps that give interesting hints.

• Google Inc. - 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View CA 94043
• Munich / Germany -
• Munich / Germany, Franz Josef Strauss Airport -
• Berlin / Germany, Reichstag and Brandenburger Tor -
• Günzburg / Germany, Legoland -
• Lausitz Ring / Germany - high speed oval raceway
• Rom / Italy, Petersplatz, Vatikan -
• Paris / France, L'Arc de Triomphe -
• Paris / France , Tour Eiffel -
• Paris / France, Charles de Gaulle Airport -
• Paris / France, Le Bourget Airport - with Concorde on display
• Toulouse / France, Airport - with Concorde on display
• Toulouse / France, Airbus Company - Concorde
• Mont Saint Michel, France -
• Moscow / Russia, Kreml -
• Cairo / Egypt, Pyrams of Gizeh -
• Gibraltar - with Airport
• Brasilia / Brasil -
• Peking / China -
• New York / USA, John F. Kennedy Airport - with Concorde
• New York / USA, John F. Kennedy Airport - with Concorde
• Disneyland, Anaheim / Los Angeles / USA -
• Disney World Epcot Center, Orlando, Florida -
• Disney World Magic Kingdom, Orlando, Florida -
• Universal Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles / USA -
• Hollywood sign, Hollywood, Los Angeles / USA -
• Queen Mary and Spruce Goose Dome, Long Beach, Los Angeles / USA -
• Sea World, San Diego / USA -
• Mirage and Cecars Palace Casinos, Las Vegas / USA -
• Redmond / Washington / USA, Microsoft Headquarter -
• Gateway Arche, St. Louis / USA -
• Gateway Arche, St. Louis / USA - higher resolution
• Chicago Airport -
• Indianapolis Raceway, Indianapolis /USA -
• Mount Rushmore, South Dakota -
• Grand Canyon, Phantom Ranch Campground -
• Hoover Dam, Arizona / Nevada -
• Niagra Falls, US-Canada border -
• Bill Gates house, Seattle / Washington - I don't know exactly which one it is
• Biosphere 2, north of Tuscon, Arizona / USA -
• Cape Canaveral, Florida / USA -
• Strategic Air & Space Museum, Nebraska - the Strategic Air & Space Museum with several airplanes on display
• Airplane in flight over San Jose -
• Airplane in flight over Detroit -
• airport with Zeppelin / Blimp and former Cargolifter airship hangar - south east of Berlin / Germany, the hangar - largest building on earth by volume (360 m long, 210 m wide and 107 m high, 5.5 million m³ / 194 million ft³) - is now used as "Tropical Islands" recreation resort with sand beach
• John Travolta's house with Boeing 707 - John Travolta's lives in Jumbolair, north of Ocala, Florida/USA
• Bailey Yard - near North Platte, Nebraska / USA, the world’s largest railroad classification yard operated by Union Pacific Railroad, more than 13 km in length, 3,2 km wide and 500 km track length, in operation since 1948
• Rangierbahnhof Maschen - Europe's largest and the world's second largest railroad classification yard at Maschen, south of Hamburg / Germany, with more than 7 km length, 0,7 wide and 245 km track length, in operation since 1977

Automotive test tracks, test centers and proving grounds

• GM proving ground, near Phoenix, Arizona / USA -
• GM proving ground, near Phoenix, Arizona / USA - higher resolution
• GM proving ground, near Brighton / Farmington Hills, Michigan / USA -
• Nissan proving ground, Arizona -
• Nissan proving ground, Arizona - higher resolution
• Nissan proving ground, near Yokohama / Japan -
• Honda proving ground, California -
• Proving ground, California - unknown owner
• Volkswagen proving ground, Arizona -
• Volkswagen proving ground, near Ehra / Wolfsburg / Germany - the proving ground area is about 10 x 1 km size, the high speed track is about 21 km long
• Chrysler proving ground, Arizona -
• Toyota proving ground, Arizona -
• Toyota proving ground, Arizona - higher resolution
• Volvo (?) proving ground near Göteborg / Sweden -
• Volvo proving ground, near Melbourne / Australia-
• Volvo proving ground, Arizona -
• BMW proving ground, Miramas / France -
• BMW test track, Spartanburg / Georgia -
• BMW plant, Spartanburg / Georgia - with hundreds of cars
• Mercedes Benz / DaimlerChrysler proving ground, Papenburg / Germany - operated by Automotive Testing Papenburg (ATP)
• Mercedes Benz / DaimlyerChrysler test track, Stuttgart / Germany -
• Mercedes Benz / DaimlerChrysler test track, Laredo, Texas / USA -
• Bosch proving ground, Boxberg / Germany -
• Bosch test track, Schwieberdingen / Germany -
• Bosch proving ground, New Carlisle / Indiana -
• Bosch proving ground, Flat Rock / Michigan -
• Ford test track, Dearborn / Michigan -
• Ford Australia Proving Ground - west of Melbourne / Australia
• Ford test track, Tatui near Sao Paulo / Brasil -
• Audi proving ground, Neustad/Donau, Germany -
• Audi proving ground, near N14 about 150 km south west of Upington / South Africa - the paved oval test track is about 17,5 km long with curve radius of about 1,25 km (total area about 7,5 x 2,5 km), note that there are also two unpaved round tracks south of the oval test track
• Opel proving ground near Dudenhofen / Germany -
• Porsche test track, Weissach / Germany -
• Ferrari test track, Maranello / Italy -
• Nardo high speed proving ground, Nardo / Italy - the circle has about 4 km diameter, so the test track length is about 12,57 km
• Continental proving ground "Contidrom" near Hannover / Germany -
• Firestone proving ground, Fort Stockton / Texas -
• Arizona Proving Ground (APG) - located in Yucca, Arizona
• Continental Uvalde Proving Grounds, Texas -
• Continental Proving Ground, Brimley, Michigan / USA -
• Goodyear Proving Ground - near San Angelo, TX, southeast of Abilene, TX / USA
• Centre d'Essais et de Recherche Automobile de Mortefontaine (CERAM) -
• Proving ground? / California -
• Proving ground? - south of Berlin / Germany
• Proving ground in Japan -
• Michelin proving ground? - near Almeria, Spain -

Railway / Railroad / Locomotive test centers

• Siemens railway test center, near Wegberg-Wildenrath / Germany - the Siemens railway test center located in the northwest of Germany near the border to the Netherlands, build on an old air base
• Transrapid test track near Lathen, Germany - the Transrapid uses non-contact electromagnetic levitation and guidance
• Railroad test track near Pueblo / Colorado, USA - the Railroad Test Track (RTT) at the Transportation Technology Center (TTC), northeast of Pueblo, Colorado, dimension about 7,5x7 km with several tracks, longest round track has about 22km distance
• Centre d’Essais Ferroviaire (CEF) near Valenciennes / France -
• Yamanashi Maglev Test Line near Otsuki / Japan - most of the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line is underground
• Russian railway testing site, near Shcherbinka, south of Moscow / Russia -
• Czech Railway Research Institute - about 40 km east of Prague near the town Sokolez, homepage

Google Datacenter Locations

• The Dalles, Oregon / USA - the image does not show the real building complex, so either it is an old image or Google does not want us to see what is really there
• Lenoir, North Calrolina / USA -
• Pryor, Oklahoma / USA - located in the Mid America Industrial Park, exact location unknown, only very bad images available - look here at Live Search for better images
• Council Bluffs, Iowa / USA -

Military and Intelligence Facilities

Note: All this information presented here is collected from public available sources!

The public available space images especially from Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth are an interesting source to see things somebody might want to be kept secret for the public. Fortunately we can now use this opportunity to have a closer look at them, at least as long as these pictures are accessible.

Let us start with the official government headquarter and with two more or less well known US intelligence organizations, the NSA and the CIA:

• Pentagon, Washington DC -
• NSA National Security Agency Headquarter, Fort Meade, Washington DC / USA (link to NSA) - on the left side located is the National Cryptographic Museum, at the lower border there is the "Black Cube" building viewed from the top
• CIA Central Intelligence Agency Headquarter, McLean, Washington DC / USA (link to CIA) -

Intelligence organizations from other countries

• Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, also known as MI6) - British Secret Service, Great Britain, London, Vauxhall Cross
• FSB (former KGB) - Russian Secret Service, Russia, Moscow
• Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) - Federal Intelligence Service, Germany, Pullach near Munich
• Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) - Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany, Cologne

Next are a lot of images from military facilities like Air Force and Navy bases. Information and exact coordinates for such locations all over the world but especially in the USA can be found very easily on GlobalSecurity.org. GlobalSecurity is a great site if you search for information about military, intelligence and public security from countries around the world.

Following are some links to space images of US military installations. Move around in these images, zoom in and out and get impressive views on military installations where a search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) will be much more successful than in Iraq.

US Military Installations

• Groom Lake Air Force Base (Area 51), north of Las Vegas / Nevada - for the US government this place in the Nevada desert north of Las Vegas doesn't exist
• Nuclear test site west of Groom Lake Air Force Base -
• Nellis Range Tonopah Air Field (Area 30) north of Las Vegas / Nevada - see also a fake airbase south east
• Edwards Air Base near California City / Palmdale north of Los Angeles - overview
• Air Force Flight Test Center Museum near Edwards Air Force Base -
• Edwards Air Base near California City / Palmdale north of Los Angeles - two Lookheed YF12A / SR-71 Blackbird airplanes standing before a hangar (shouldn't they be out of operations for many years now?)
• Edwards Air Base near California City / Palmdale north of Los Angeles - Lookheed YF12A / SR-71 Blackbird
• Edwards Air Base near California City / Palmdale north of Los Angeles - two F/A 22 (?)
• Edwards Air Base near California City / Palmdale north of Los Angeles - three B1
• Air Force Plant 42 near Palmdale north of Los Angeles - one B2
• Air Force Plant 42 near Palmdale north of Los Angeles - two B2 (fake?)
• Air Force Plant 42 (?) - three (four?) SR-71 Blackbird, one fake?
• Air Force Plant 42 (?), south of air base - two Lookheed YF12A / SR-71 Blackbird and U2 on display
• Mojave desert Air Base near California City / Bakersfield / Palmdale north of Los Angeles -
• Mojave desert Air Base near Ridgecrest -
• Mojave Desert Air Base - low resolution due to home of B2 (Skunkworks)?
• Mojave Desert China Lake Air (Armitage Field) Force Plant - near Ridgecrest
• Mojave Desert Air Base near Lancaster north of Los Angeles - one F117 standing before a hangar
• Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscon, Arizona - boneyard with hundreds of out-of-rotation airplanes in the desert (on the right below the airport):
• Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tuscon, Arizona - boneyard with hundreds of out-of-rotation airplanes in the desert (on the right below the airport):
• Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas - about 17 B1
• Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas - about 26 B1
• Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota - about 14 B52 above the airport there are 9 launch facilities for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM)
• Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota - about eight B1
• Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana - about 40 B52
• Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana - about 40 B52, higher resolution
• Norfolk Navy Base - two aircraft carriers in the harbour, below are some more ships and also 4 submarines
• San Diego Navy Base - one aircraft carrier
• New London Submarine Navy Base -
• Aircraft carrier, Philadelphia -
• Aircraft carrier, Seattle -
• Aircraft carrier, Jacksonville -
• Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada -
• Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada - four B1
• Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nevada - two B52 and three B1
• Beale Air Force Base, Sacramento - a U2 in flight over that runway
• Beale Air Force Base, Sacramento - Lookheed YF12A / SR-71 Blackbird (on display?) and one (two?) U2
• Beale Air Force Base, Sacramento - Lookheed YF12A / SR-71 Blackbird (on display?) and four U2
• Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, North Dakota -
• Offut Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska -
• Offut Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska - the U.S. Strategic Command Command Center
• Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs - entry to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
• Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho -
• Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho - 8 B1
• Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri - homebase of the B2 strategic bomber fleet
• Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri - one B2
• Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri - one B2
• Holloman Air Foce Base, New Mexico -
• Holloman Air Foce Base, New Mexico - start area of the 16 km long rocket rail test track (up to Mach 8,5) in the north western area of Holloman AFB
• Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio -
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - overview
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - several AWACS airplanes
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - several AWACS airplanes, higher resolution
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - B1
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - B52 and B1, higher resolution
• Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma - another view on several B52 and B1
• Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado - C5 galaxy
• McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas -
• Warner Robins Air Force Base - six B1
• Tyndall Air Force Base,  Panama City / Florida - F/A 22
• Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska -
• Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska - special circular antenna construction (AN/FLR-9 circularly disposed antenna array (CDAA))
• Vandenberg Air Force Base, California - the military counterpart to Cape Canaveral used for secret space operations
• Vandenberg Air Force Base, California - space launch complex
• McChord Air Force Base, Seattle, Washington -
• Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington - the Boeing Company production site in Seattle
• Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida - the Navy training base
• Eglin Air Force Base, Florida - this air base is surrounded by a training range that contains several (about 10?) smaller airfields (operative or just model) and ground camps for attack and weapons training purposes, this air base contains a lot of interesting strange sites of (unknown?) purpose
• Diego Garcia Air Force Base / Navy Station - the high resolution images have been completely removed from Google Maps and Live Search,  there is obviously someone who doesn't want us to see what is going on there -> use Google Earth
• Air Defense Radar transmitter - near Christmas Valley, Oregon
• Air Defense Radar receiver - near Tule Lake, California
• Air Defense Radar transmitter - at Moscow Air Force Station, Maine
• Air Defense Radar receiver - at Columbia Falls Air Force Station, Maine
• Strategic Air Command Museum - located between Omaha and Licoln, Nebraska
• Geilenkirchen Air Force Base - located in Germany, AWACS base
• Osan Air Force Base, South Korea -
• Bagram US Air Base, Afghanistan -
• Camp Warehouse, Kabul, Afghanistan - ISAF Head Quarter
• Target Air Base (?) - inside Tonopah Test Range / Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, an air base similar to Sovjet air bases for training purposes
• Target Air Base (?) - inside Tonopah Test Range / Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada, an air base similar to Sovjet air bases for training purposes
• Target Ground Camp - inside Eglin Air Force Base Test Range, Florida, a ground camp with lot of Sovjet military equipment (tanks, trucks, MIG 29 at the west side)
• Sovjet planes at Eglin Air Force Base - there is even a MIG 31 to see

United Kingdom Military Installations

• Fairford RAF Base - with U2
• Machrihanish RAF Base - former base now public airport, there are rumours that this RAF base has been the british "Area 51"

French Military Installations

• Air Base - near Cambrai, north of France
• Air Base Colmar / Meyenheim -
• Air Base Istres -
• Air Base Etain -
• submarine base - at the Atlantic coast in west France

German Military Installations

• Luftwaffenbasis Laage  - Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff", Air Base where the Eurofighter is introduced into active operation
• Manching Air Base - German Airforce test and training center
• Neuburg/Donau Air Base - German Airforce base, first Eurofighter
• Sperenberg Air Base - former largest airbase of the Sovjet Union Red Army in the German Democratic Republic (GDR / DDR) until 1991/1994, now de-militarized and out of operation
• Truppenübungsplatz Hillersleben - former Sovjet Union Red Army training area in the German Democratic Republic (GDR / DDR) north of Magdeburg, during cold war this area was the location of the Warsaw Pact nearest to to the iron curtain (30 km to West Germany boarder, 125 km to Berlin, 165 km to Hamburg) where nuclear weapons (SS20) were in operation, the Soviet troops in and around this training area with about 50000 men (within 24 hours increasing to 500000) were ready for combat within 4 hours
• Truppenübungsplatz - former Sovjet Union Red Army training area north east of Magdeburg / east of Stendal
• Truppenübungsplatz - former Sovjet Union Red Army training area between Berlin and Schwerin
• Truppenübungsplatz - former Sovjet Union Red Army training area south west of Berlin
• Air Base - former Sovjet Union Red Army airbase in the German Democratic Republic (GDR / DDR)
• Soviet Union Red Army Headquarter Wünsdorf - headquarter of the GSSD (Gruppe der Sowjetischen Streitkräfte Deutschland) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR / DDR)
• NVA headquarter Strausberg - former NVA (Nationale Volksarmee) headquarter in the German Democratic Republic

Russian Military Installations

These space images from russian air bases have low resolution, but they are still interesting.

• anti ballistic missile site north of Moscow -
• military airport near Moscow -
• Ramenskoye Air Base - south east of Moscow
• Tiksi Air Base - in the north east Siberia
• Chulman Air Base - eastern Siberia, near the border to China and Mongolia
• Novy Air Base - eastern Siberia, near the Chinese Sea
• Irkutsk Air Base - near Irkutsk, Siberia, south of Baikal Sea
• Navy Base near Polyarny, north of Murmansk -
• Navy Base near Polyarny, north of Murmansk -
• Rybachy Submarine Navy Base, Kamchatka - high reolsution
• Kotlas-Savvatiy Air Base - with several MIG 31 (Foxhound)
• Krasnodar Air Base - with several MIG 31 (Foxhound)

Chinese Military Installations

• military air base - in north west China (Korla?)
• military air base - near Xian with several chinese H6 (TU16 Badger?) bombers
• military air base - near Nanking with several chinese H6 (TU16 Badger?) bombers
• military air base - Feiding AB near Nanjing, the large runway east of the airfield goes directly to underground facilities in the mountain
• submarine base - near Qingdao (Tsingtau)

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