Google Earth satellites would not map the Nevada military base

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• Google Earth has not updated its satellite image of
  an experimental military base in southwestern Nevada
  for eight years, according to one report of
  Motherboard.
• The space of eight years of images of the Tonopah test range is the
  The longest period that a stretch of the continental United States has pbaded without
  an update.
• Google would not answer the questions of the motherboard about the reasons
  the "Tonopah Gap" exists.
• Questions remain about the gap, especially if Google
  was working directly with the US government to limit these
  images from his site.

A
Motherboard report Thursday revealed that for eight years,
Google Earth has not updated its satellite image of a military
site where experimental weapons were tested in the southwest
Nevada – and the company did not explain why.
is.

The area in question is a series of dry lake beds in Tonopah
Test area where extensive military weapons tests have
would have occurred. Between 2008 and 2016, Google did not
update the satellite images of this area, which is the longest
period a stretch of the continental US went without a
update, according to the motherboard.

Updates, according to one
Google Earth Blog, usually take place every 30 days.

Motherboard was able to buy a satellite image of the dry
lake beds in Tonopah taken in January 2013 (which
falls almost midway between the past eight years). the
publication was planning to sell the image to Google for $ 1, to see if
the company would then add it to its records. If Google
refused, says the motherboard, this would indicate perhaps
government censorship was at stake at that time for this
particular region of Nevada.

However, Motherboard later learned that she had only legally
"rented" the image and could not sell it to Google. Instead, he
will show the picture in Brooklyn at
Event Thursday night

Google has never answered the question of the motherboard about why the
"Tonopah Gap" exists.

The main questions about this story remain, including:

• Why are the satellite images of the Tonopah test range not available?
  for eight years?
• There are other weapons testing facilities in the United States.
  who have never been this long without an update. What
  makes Tonopah different?
• Did Google work directly with the US government?
  these images from his site? And if so, why?

Google did not immediately return Business Insider
request for comment.

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