7th April 2005, 3:08 PM
Yeah, but they don't cover the entire planet in full zoom 24/7, just the areas their orbits lock them over, which are pretty wide and all, but still. Point is, most of the photos you can find on these sites are out of date. Some are updated every minute on the minute, but places like where I live are lucky to get an update once every 5 years.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)