How to View Real-Time Images at Google Earth : Tech Tips

by Barbara J. Feldman on February 20, 2008 · 16 comments

Although it is a common misconception that Google Earth images are real-time, they are not. There are, however, two ways to view nearly real-time satellite images on Google Earth. For three-hour old weather images, look for the Clouds layer, found under the new Weather layer folder. NASA also has a layer called DailyPlanet which shows the entire Earth, continuously updated in real-time at a medium resolution. For more Google Earth tips, read the Google Earth Blog.

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Ariana386 March 17, 2013 at 1:00 pm

How is catching a cheating spouse an “evil use”? I should think that when you are CHEATING, that is an “evil use of your significant other”, not an evil use of this service. IJS

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megankalu February 26, 2013 at 11:53 am

Join the CIA… then you’ll have access to ACTUAL “real time”… but that’s it.

Brokem February 19, 2013 at 7:34 pm

Just go on earthcam.com

swamp403 January 14, 2013 at 3:06 am

Ask cia
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Guss3r December 27, 2012 at 6:13 pm

I think its probably a mater of national security to have a live look at the earth . Imagine how many people can get caught cheating on there spouse too lol. This is a powerful tool that can be used for evil as well as good .

paul October 28, 2012 at 2:38 am

not interesting.

Green September 30, 2012 at 1:40 pm

Some speculations are being heard that Google is really going to introduce the real-time thing which is contradictory to what you have stated here in this post. Can you clarify?

mysciencelessons September 19, 2012 at 8:31 pm

There isn’t a way to see Google real time images.

For this to be possible Google would need to have cameras permanently positioned (or from satellites) in all the places for which it wants to provide real time images. Then all that information will also need to be streamed continuously. Google does not do this.

The nearest available are some streaming webcams in places of international interest.

kala September 19, 2012 at 10:48 am