# Satellite imagery website **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 14, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515 "2005-12-14T00:44:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/1 "2005-12-14T00:44:28Z")
I’m trying to rediscover a satellite imagery website I stumbled upon a while back; it had a scrolable map/globe with a variety of views, including visible clouds, infrared clouds, radar storms and so on; there were a bunch of combo boxes and radio buttons below the image to allow the user to select the mode, date, location etc. AFAIK, it had more or less up-to-date weather info. What site am I talking about? ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/2 "2005-12-14T01:49:29Z")
Not sure but you can use [maps.google.com](http://maps.google.com) or better yet download google earth which has fast scrolling as it downloads the maps after the scroll. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/3 "2005-12-14T01:51:44Z")
> [@Padeye](#): > > Not sure but you can use [maps.google.com](http://maps.google.com) or better yet download google earth which has fast scrolling as it downloads the maps after the scroll. Thanks; I have google earth, but I’m looking for one that shows cloud cover on specific dates - I’m sure it’s out there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/4 "2005-12-14T02:18:17Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I’m trying to rediscover a satellite imagery website I stumbled upon a while back; it had a scrolable map/globe with a variety of views, including visible clouds, infrared clouds, radar storms and so on; there were a bunch of combo boxes and radio buttons below the image to allow the user to select the mode, date, location etc. > AFAIK, it had more or less up-to-date weather info. > > What site am I talking about? A good place to start looking might be the various government meteorology websites. [url=http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/satellite/]this is the satallite image section of the UK met office. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/5 "2005-12-14T02:24:42Z")
[Link](http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/satellite/). Or what about [this?](http://www.goes.noaa.gov/) [Google.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=sdL&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=opera&rls=en&q=satellite+weather+images&spell=1) ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/6 "2005-12-14T03:59:12Z")
Sounds like a lot of the options I remember in NASA’s [World Wind](http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/)… Like Google Earth, but not. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/7 "2005-12-14T08:39:35Z")
This isn’t the site the OP is looking for, but I’ll throw it in: [Microsoft Terraserver](http://terraserver.microsoft.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/8 "2005-12-14T08:59:55Z")
Aha! found it in an archive of favvourites; [Earth View](http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth?opt=-p&img=learth.evif) Thanks for the help everyone! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/9 "2005-12-14T15:55:46Z")
That is pretty cool. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Viscera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/258eb7/32.png) [@Viscera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viscera)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/10 "2005-12-14T23:21:43Z")
For very high resolution visible imagery, try this site (sorry for hijack). [http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2005348/](http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2005348/) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/11 "2005-12-15T01:07:58Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Aha! found it in an archive of favvourites **Mangetout** , that site doesn’t have any cloud cover (wanted coz I’m off to an area with some major monsoon activity in a few weeks). ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/12 "2005-12-15T01:10:10Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **Mangetout** , that site doesn’t have any cloud cover (wanted coz I’m off to an area with some major monsoon activity in a few weeks). There are raduio buttons labelled ‘clouds’ and ‘IR clouds’ - click one of them, then hit the update button. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/13 "2005-12-15T01:14:39Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **Mangetout** , that site doesn’t have any cloud cover (wanted coz I’m off to an area with some major monsoon activity in a few weeks). There’s a checkable list of other views; Image: Living Earth®/NASA Visible Earth/Topo map/Clouds/IR clouds/Colour weather/ Water vapour/Water vapour raw ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/14 "2005-12-15T07:11:22Z")
I’m going to have to get Win 2000 or XP yet… ☹ That 3D stuff don’t like 98… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/15 "2005-12-15T13:12:00Z")
That site, Earth View, is just awesome. I shake my head thinking about what computers did when I was a kid by comparison… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2005, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/16 "2005-12-15T14:38:29Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > There are raduio buttons labelled ‘clouds’ and ‘IR clouds’ - click one of them, then hit the update button. All it did on “clouds” for me was give me a big white ball at every zoom level. Apparently, the cloud cover today is thicker than Venus. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/satellite-imagery-website/335515/17 "2005-12-16T01:35:29Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > All it did on “clouds” for me was give me a big white ball at every zoom level. Apparently, the cloud cover today is thicker than Venus. 😃 Indeed. Except made up of huge, garish psychedelic pixels.