Satellite images include many showing cloud cover, but only the images with few or no clouds are chosen for Google Maps. I once needed a MODIS image showing all of California and Nevada without cloud cover. read more
Google has just rid the earth of clouds. Well, Google Earth, at least*. They’ve just pushed an update to the satellite imagery found in Google Earth and Google Maps, offering a higher-res (and now cloud free) view of the earth than ever before. read more