[LINK] More with google maps - Uluru and Great Wall

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/May/02, at 6:21 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Alastair Rankine wrote:
>> On 02/05/2007, at 7:55 PM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>>>> Took a long time to find the great wall of China. I don't know  
>>>> what they're talking about when they say they can spot it from  
>>>> space.
>>>
>>> You can't - it's an urban myth.
>> Well, does 180 miles up qualify as "space" ? If so, then the Great  
>> Wall *is* visible from space, see http://www.snopes.com/science/ 
>> greatwal.htm
>
> The Great Wall should be visible as I have a desktop wallpaper of  
> the Mars Rover at the Victoria crater and that was taken by the  
> Mars Orbiter from 279km above the Martian surface, and the Mars  
> Rover is only the size of a golf cart and you can even discern its  
> tracks and the shadow of it's camera mast.

China is not quite as empty as mars.  What exactly does "visible from  
space" mean anyway?  How high up?  With the naked eye?  How can you  
have a "naked eye" in space anyway?

>> Also I also have to recommend http://googlesightseeing.com/ .
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