Anyone find it odd that there are no aerial, ortho or satellite photos of the interior of Antarctica?
46 2017-11-20 by Tunderbar1
It's true. We've explored and photographed and mapped the Moon, and Mars, and Pluto, and we have literally thousands of artificial satellites with crazy accurate measuring and sensing devices and cameras etc etc...... but we haven't gotten around to doing any aerial or satellite imagery or mapping of the interior of Antarctica.
Odd?
20 comments
1 EricCarver 2017-11-20
well, I am sure it has been done, but commercially not so much. I think most of the google earth pics are those they bought from various sources. There likely isn't a lot of commercial pull to survey cold wasteland vs surveying land that could be used for cell towers, or pipelines, or (whatever commercial interest).
we also have satellites spinning the world in orbit, but I imagine the orbit for a sat that crosses the poles would look really weird, and I wonder how sustainable it would be.
1 Blakwulf 2017-11-20
There are tons of areal pictures of Antarctica, what are you talking about? You won't find as many on things like Google Earth or Maps, because those photos are all composite images taken by planes. Planes don't fly over Antarctica.
1 fionnstoned 2017-11-20
Are you discounting the satellite images we see on google earth?
1 XavierSimmons 2017-11-20
"The only pictures available are fake."
1 Rockran 2017-11-20
Do you mean compared to aerial photos of cities?
Because there are photos of antactica, just that for the barren landscapes that cover most of it - Those photo are low quality. The same goes for most of the sea on Google Maps as well as large amounts of uninhabited inland areas for most countries.
Google Maps doesn't provide ultra high res images for most of the Earth.
1 fraszled 2017-11-20
Weird, all they have to do is show a picture of white.
1 antifathroway 2017-11-20
Satellites are very difficult to make pass directly over a pole. The most natural satellite orbits are perpendicular to the axis of rotation, since you can use the Earth's rotation to help "throw" them into that orbit. Getting them to pass over poles requires a shitload of fuel...fire up Kerbal Space Program and try it. You have to first negate all the momentum of Earth's rotation just to get to a standstill, then you have to add all the energy necessary to get it moving North-South from a standstill. That energy is much, much more than it takes to get it into that easy East-West orbit to begin with, since you don't have the rotation helping you.
Not saying they can't do it...but I don't think they'd bother just to get some pictures. They'd need more mission objectives to make it worthwhile.
1 invictus_excelsis 2017-11-20
Yup. They're hiding something. Entrance to inner earth is at the poles.
1 1nf3ct3d 2017-11-20
If there is an inner earth why cant we drill far into the ground? How do they handle the pressure?
1 MrMediumStuff 2017-11-20
I would find that odd if it was even slightly true, but it isn't.
1 VinDiesel_xXx 2017-11-20
Present your evidence squire!
1 ThreeEyedHawk 2017-11-20
Use google earth and try and zoom in on the north and south poles. Notice the perfect circle on the south? Notice how the north pole is photoshopped? Why?
1 1nf3ct3d 2017-11-20
low res = photoshop?
1 MahSelectah 2017-11-20
Govt site. Not shocking to me. Would really like it if someone could manage to get a shot though.
1 cryo 2017-11-20
It’s not a govt site and there are plenty of pictures, including of the South Pole base.
1 MahSelectah 2017-11-20
There's reliable shots of the no fly zone?
1 awesomeness872 2017-11-20
Satellites don't have to follow no fly zones iirc
1 MahSelectah 2017-11-20
Yeah but anything via google earth will probably be blurred/edited. NASA sure as shit won't show it.
1 wile_e_chicken 2017-11-20
Yeah I searched for weeks and the only ones I could find are absolutely useless potato quality - like one pixel = a few hundred miles. And this, for an area that's supposedly melting and going to kill us all.
I suspect the whole center is melted, which implies heat is rising from Earth's core, which implies energy from "nothing"... which implies oil and water are renewable and free energy is a thing.
On mobile, will post link shortly; it's very damning.
1 FORKinmyDICK 2017-11-20
Everything about it is weird, absolutely one of the biggest conspiracies imo and support it every time it's brought up.
Any imaging besides basic and lower quality satellite photos is just hidden from us, from sure they have it. But whatever the fuck is down there we do not have the full story on. For sure some sort of entrance into some sort of inner Earth "realm" for lack of a better world (imo).
1 bitcoin_noob 2017-11-20
For sure? Really?
1 XavierSimmons 2017-11-20
"The only pictures available are fake."