Quickly after the emergence of Google Maps, a short time after losing interest zooming in on their home in satellite tv for pc view, some folks started looking for satellite tv for pc photographs of Earth kinds and patterns which resembled letters of the alphabet – when seen from above.
The primary pareidolia sufferer that I can bear in mind changing into hooked on discovering typefaces in nature is Rhett Dashwood. In 2009 Rhett revealed his Google Maps Typography, a set of ‘land formations or buildings resembling letter kinds’ all discovered on Google Maps from the satellite tv for pc photographs of Victoria, Australia.
A few years later Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy, by now bored of searching for letters, started looking for numbers in satellite tv for pc imagery. Having discovered the ten decimal digits (0-9) they took the subsequent logical step and created the Earth Clock. The Earth Clock (beforehand the Google Earth Clock) is a web-based digital clock which makes use of satellite tv for pc imagery resembling numbers to show the present time the place you reside.
Now NASA, having turn into bored staring into the huge void of area, has additionally turned its consideration in the direction of looking for satellite tv for pc views of Earth which resemble letters. Landsat satellites have been observing Earth from area for over 50 years. Throughout that point NASA has discovered plenty of places all over the world which, when seen from area, resemble letters.
Utilizing these places NASA has created Your Identify in Landsat. Kind a reputation into Your Identify in Landsat and you may observe your title spelled out in Earth options present in Landsat photographs. You possibly can even obtain a picture of your title spelled out in huge Earth letters by merely urgent the obtain button. Hover over the person satellite tv for pc photographs spelling your title and you may uncover the place on the earth every large letter might be discovered.