Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

Clip from bullet, courtest of jerry:

Jander: using maps.google.com you can see the a-bomb test site in nevada

Jander: if you go to maps.google.com, click the satellite link, then search for “rachel nevada desert” – then pan the window S/W of where you end up – there’s a round white dried up lake, then futher s/w is a light brown desert area covered in masses of craters

alecm: i wonder which one is trinity

alecm: there’s a big one at the top

alecm: trinity is probably quite small

Update:

alecm: what are all the green ink splodges to the NNW ? military bases ?

Jander: no idea – I figure that they’re “sensitive”

alecm: there are a lot more of them to the west; they *look* like agriculture, and when flying over the USA i have seen such things from the air, but the ones near the site look a bit artificial/photoshopped; i am also wondering about the coverage – evidently there are areas which are in one set of photos of the area, which are not in the other. different coverage, differernt vendors, different sensitivity and legal restraints ?

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10 responses to “Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground”

  1. alecm
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    I presume that all the green splodges to the NNW are top secret bases, or somesuch. Groom Lake has to be around there, too…

  2. Jim
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    http maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.268372,-115.801392&spn=0.267792,0.240669&t=k&hl=en

    is Groom Lake, AKA Area 51.

  3. Jim
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    And the circular structures, common in the West, are irrigated fields using a fixed pivot system.

  4. alecm
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    >And the circular structures, common in the West, are irrigated fields using a fixed pivot system.

    …but that’s what they’d *want* you to think… and they are very very *green* 😎

  5. 12.149.141.14
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    You need to go about 800 miles to the east to find Trinity:

    It is in the New Mexico desert, southwest of Alamogordo. The US didn’t start using Nevada until after WWII was over.

  6. 12.149.141.14
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    You need to go about 800 miles to the east to find Trinity:

    It is in the New Mexico desert, southwest of Alamogordo. The US didn’t start using Nevada until after WWII was over.

  7. Katz
    Boom!

    That’s what I thought; that the first tests were at Los Alamos.

    In panning SW from the Little a Le Inn you’ll see the green “pizza farms” which are centrally irrigated farms. If you keep going WSW from there you’ll find what at first appear to be brown craters, just west of all the green. Those are mines for coal/iron/gold … or something. They aren’t from bombs.

    If you pan NW from the a Le Inn, that’s the exciting stuff. Those green splotches ARE photoshopped in. The large white areas are the dry lake beds … think of the Groom Lake Air Force Base, the area where Chuk Yeager broke Mach 1.

  8. alecm
    re: Boom!

    yep; i blame the braino on the beer with val at lunch; i’ve dug up the test site (see other posting) and also meteor crater, for good measure.

  9. Katz
    re: Boom!

    Yeah, yeah, always blame Val 🙂

    I think I need to type in “Oak Ridge National Laboratory” into maps.google.com.

    Are there similar services for places other than the US?

  10. Daniel E
    re: Google Maps : US Atomic Weapons Testing Ground

    I stayed in Rachel Nevada over the summer. Right next to those 8-10 green circles just North of Groom Lake. There is a ranch there and I saw lots of cows there as well. The two circles further north on Hwy 375 are also fields, hell, I took a woodsmens dump next to one of the fields so I have a pretty good idea that it’s there. I have some pics of the area if anyone wants to see just email me edmiston9@hotmail.com

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