Google Earth’s Amazing Pictures Of Interesting Places On The Planet (49 Pics)

Airplane Boneyard
32 08’59.96″ N, 110 50’09.03″W
Tucson, Arizona

Mysterious Desert Pattern
27°22’50.10″N, 33°37’54.62″E
Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

Swastika-Shaped Building Complex
32°40’34.19″N 117° 9’27.58″W
Coronado, California, USA

Buffalo Herd
4°17’21.49″ S 31°23’46.46″ E
Kigosi Game Reserve, Tanzania

Giant Triangle
33.747252, -112.633853
Wittmann, Arizona, USA

Shipwrecked SS Ayrfield with Trees
-33.836379, 151.080506
Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia

The Badlands Guardian
50° 0’38.20″N 110° 6’48.32″W
Walsh, Alberta, Canada

Parking Lot for Fighter Jets
33.927911, -118.38069
El Segundo, California, USA

Firefox Logo
45° 7’25.87″N 123° 6’48.97″W
Dayton, Oregon, USA

Guitar-Shaped Forest
-33.867886, -63.987
Córdoba, Argentina

Heart-Shaped Lake
41.303921, -81.901693
Columbia Station, Ohio, USA

Mysterious Desert Pattern
40.452107, 93.742118
China

Giant Target
37.563936, -116.85123
Nevada, USA

World’s Biggest Pool
-33.350534, -71.653268
Algarrobo, Valparaíso, Chile

Jesus Loves You
43.645074, -115.993081
Boise National Forest, Boise, Idaho, USA

Lion King
51.848637, -0.55462
Dunstable LU6 2LD, UK

Turkish Flag
35.282902, 33.376891
Kyrenia, Cyprus

Star Fort
Schansdijk 5, 4655 De Heen, The Netherlands

Potash Ponds
38°29’0.16″N 109°40’52.80″W
Moab, Utah, USA

Mysterious Pattern
37.629562, -116.849556
Nevada, USA

The Whampoa Boat-Shaped Shopping Centre
22°18’14.15″N, 114°11’24.66″E
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Russell Square
Bloomsbury, London, United Kingdom

Coca Cola Logo
-18.529211, -70.249941
Arica, Arica y Parinacota, Chile

Concentric Cirlces
39.623119, -107.635353
New Castle, Colorado, USA

Island in a Lake in an Island in a Lake
69.793° N, 108.241° W
Northern Canada

Flipped Car
51°19’18.13″N, 6°34’35.64″E
Krefeld, Germany

Strange Symbol
37.401573, -116.867808
Nevada, USA

Monkey Face
65.476721, -173.511416
Russia

Big Swimming Pool
52°29’52.24″N 13°27’13.67″E
Berlin, Germany

Big Friendly Giant
19°56’56.96″S 69°38’1.83″W
Huara, Tarapacá, Chile

Another Jet in a Parking Lot
48.825183, 2.1985795 92410
Ville-d’Avray, France

More Mysterious Desert Patterns
40.458148, 93.393145
China

Shipwreck
30.541634, 47.825445
Basrah, Iraq

Multiple Landing Strips in the Desert
32.663367, -111.487618
Eloy, Arizona, USA

Oil Fields
37°39’16.06″S 68°10’16.42″W
Rio Negro, Argentina

Mattel Logo
33.921277, -118.391674
El Segundo, California

Uluru / Ayers Rock
-25.344375, 131.034401
Northern Territory, Austrlia

1:20 Scale Model of Disputed Border Region between India and China
38.265652, 105.9517
Yong Ning Xian, Yinchuan, Ningxia, China

UTA Flight 772 Desert Memorial
16.864841, 11.953808
Sahara Desert, southern Ténéré of Niger

Heart-Shaped Land Formation
20°56’15.47″S, 164°39’30.56″E
New Caledonia

Rainbow Plane
Cathy Terrace Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , USA ‎

Barringer Meteor Crater
35.027185, -111.022388
Winslow, Arizona

Come Downtown and Play
35.141533, -90.052695
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Hippo Pool
6°53’53.00″ S 31°11’15.40″ E
Katavi National Park, Tanzania

Solar Field
34.871778, -116.834192
Daggett, California

Giant US Flag
7300 Airport Blvd, Houston, TX 77061, USA

Big Red Lips in the Desert
12°22’13.32″N, 23°19’20.18″E
Sudan

Grand Prismatic Spring
44.525049, -110.83819
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA

Batman Symbol
26.357896, 127.783809
Okinawa, Japan

NASA delays launch of world's largest space telescope until 2020

The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb telescope is considered to be the successor to NASA's 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.

The US space agency NASA has delayed the launch of world's largest space telescope 'James Webb Space Telescope' until May 2020.

The most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb telescope is considered to be the successor to NASA's 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope.

The announcement on Tuesday made after an independent assessment of remaining tasks for the highly complex space observatory further pushes the launch target of the next-generation space telescope by about a year.

"Webb is the highest priority project for the agency's Science Mission Directorate, and the largest international space science project in US history," said ascting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot.


Lightfoot said,"All the observatory's flight hardware is now complete, however, the issues brought to light with the spacecraft element are prompting us to take the necessary steps to refocus our efforts on the completion of this ambitious and complex observatory."

Testing the hardware on the observatory's telescope element and spacecraft element demonstrate that these systems individually meet their requirements.

However, recent findings from the project's Standing Review Board (SRB) indicate more time is needed to test and integrate these components together and then perform environmental testing at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, the project's observatory contractor.

The US space agency said it is also establishing an external Independent Review Board (IRB), chaired by Thomas Young, a highly respected NASA and industry veteran who is often called on to chair advisory committees and analyse organisational and technical issues.

NASA will consider the findings and recommendations of both the boards' findings for defining a more specific launch time frame.

NASA will then provide its assessment in a report to Congress this summer.

Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

The US space agency will work with its partner, ESA, on a new launch readiness date for the Ariane 5 vehicle that will launch Webb into space.

ESA is providing the Ariane 5 as part of its scientific collaboration.

Once a new launch readiness date is determined, NASA said it will provide a cost estimate that may exceed the projected $8 billion development cost to complete the final phase of testing and prepare for launch.

Additional steps to address project challenges include increasing NASA engineering oversight, personnel changes, and new management reporting structures.

"Considering the investment NASA and our international partners have made, we want to proceed systematically through these last tests, with the additional time necessary, to be ready for a May 2020 launch," said Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.