Satellite Challenge #14

Taylor will actually be in D.C. this weekend ahead of a conference he’s attending in town next week (he’ll be blogging his experience — stay tuned for details).  We’re headed to some baseball games tonight and tomorrow, so posting will be light (if at all existent) this weekend.  In addition to a potential “questioning things” post this afternoon (but don’t get your hopes up), I wanted to give you a new challenge to chew on.

I’ve got three zoom levels for you.  Please note that the final image is slightly tilted and not oriented to the north.  The orange redactions on all three images hide the name of the imagery provider, which would have given the answer away pretty easily.

This particular site has not specifically been in the news recently, but the larger idea/program has been. Nonetheless, I’m looking for the name of this location, along with city, state (if applicable), and country.  Might have to fire up Google Earth for this one, folks.

[Update: Courtyard Pwned by Marriott.]

If you enjoyed this post, you might also like:

- "Satellite Challenge #4", posted by Jarred on February 2, 2008

- "Satellite Challenge #11", posted by Jarred on April 3, 2008

- "Satellite Challenge #15", posted by Jarred on May 7, 2008

- "Satellite Challenge #10", posted by Jarred on March 19, 2008

- "Satellite Challenge #16", posted by Jarred on July 6, 2008

8 Responses to “Satellite Challenge #14”


  1. 1 Taylor

    That, sir, looks like………[leaving lots of space so that people don't see my comment on the front page]……a hog farm?

  2. 2 Joel

    Oil refinery?

  3. 3 Jarred

    Nope to both, sorry dudes.

  4. 4 Jarred

    I’ve found a new plug-in for the comments that should allow me to exclude SatChal posts (by the same developer as our “similar posts” feature which has functioned seamlessly).

    I can’t implement until I get home, but expect that to be installed over the weekend. Thanks for your patience, folks.

  5. 5 Chris

    One of them thar ethanol-from-algae thingies?

  6. 6 Jarred

    No suh.

  7. 7 Marriott

    Strategic Oil Reserve….

    Freeport, Texas

    Perhaps the most secretive area in the United States…this is what they need to tap into so I don’t pay $5 for a gallon of gas

  8. 8 Jarred

    Nailed it!

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