While researching the previous post on geocaching leaderboards I stumbled across this excellent image on AirRaidFan’s profile page. It gives an excellent representation of what the GPS satellite constellation looks like and a great idea on why only a number of satellites are ‘visible’ at any one time.
Image via Wikipedia
Find out more about how GPS works here.
Hat tip AirRaidFan.
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Great Geo-Stuff: Satellites « It's Not About The Numbers
November 6, 2010 at 7:19 pm (UTC 13) Link to this comment
[...] get an idea of how these satellites float around up there I refer you back to a post from early October that brought you the following animated image: Image via [...]