Op - thank god. I was just trying to ignore all the threads about google earth space ships etc hoping they'd go away... apparently they didn't.
Originally posted by atlasastro
reply to post by OzWeatherman
I am soooooooo dissapointed. You have not used one Youtube video as proof. How am I to believe you. Your links are all from reliable, credible, intelligent sources that I have to read, comprehend and learn from. That is just a no-no.
Damn! 
Radar images on Google Earth are provided by weather.com and Weather Services International (WSI) via a product known as NOWrad. NOWrad provides a composite of 141 separate Doppler radars maintained by the U.S. National Weather Service and military. The NOWrad composite or mosaic is updated every 5-6 minutes and undergoes heavy quality-control by both specialized computer software algorithms and by human meteorologists.
When the meteorologists' intervention is completed, the final forecast is transmitted or published simultaneously to all of The Weather Channel platforms and partners.
AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field and causing intermittant geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers around the Arctic Circle should be alert for Northern Lights