Tuckerman Ravine from space

Very cool site. I can use this in my classroom, we just started a geography unit were the kids are going to make travel pages for the class website!!
 
It may seem like splitting hairs to some, but these USGS DOQs are aerial photos taken from airplanes, not satelite photos 'from space'. Don't confuse the kids in your geography class. Commercial (as opposed to military) satelite images are now available at resolutions equal to these aerial photos, which was not the case ten years ago.

These same USGS images of Tucks & New Hampshire are available for free download from the New Hampshire GIS website, 'GRANIT', hosted at UNH GRANIT. The interface for searching & downloading DOQ images is not user-friendly, but it's worth the trouble if you are teaching a geography unit. Search by theme word 'DOQ'.

The Mt Washington quad is GRANIT ID number 47.

There is a "1992" photo of the full quad #47, which I think is what NHPowderHound's link to terraserver shows. There are also "1998" quarter-quad photos of the US 2 corridor for the NE and NW corners of quad #47. If you download the individual images from GRANIT, metadata for each image tells the actual photo date. The metadata for the "1992" photo indicates it was actually taken on May 11, 1994.

Where were you on that date? Was anyone skiing Tucks on May 11, 1994?

metadata 1992 Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle Quad 47 Mt Washington NH

The Franconia quad photo (Mt. Lafayette, Cannon Mt., etc.) was taken May 9, 1993, on which day I was skiing Hillmans Highway (so I'm not 'in the picture')
 
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