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		hnarn on July 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zoom Earth: Website lets you look at live satellit... There's nothing live about the images you get when you zoom in, so at some point I guess "live" (within 24 hrs?) just goes out the window and is replaced with Google Maps or similar.

cocoggu on July 21, 2020 | [–]

It's explicitly written under the website title that passed a specific level of zoom, images are updated daily. Still quite a nice service.

neave on July 21, 2020 | [–]

Yes, near real-time is available up to 500m/pixel (level 8 zoom). To see higher resolution you can use planet.com but that’s a commercial service.

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