That's grabbed from local.live.com. You can make a basic URL like so:
http://local.live.com/?cp=lat~long&lvl=10lat and long are given as fractional degrees, and lvl is the zoom level.
The above is a link on Google Maps to the location.
Here is a trick that will work sometimes. When you go to the above link, notice in the upper right there is a "Link to this Page" button. Click that link and you will notice the URL in the browser will expand to include a more detailed link. Examine the URL and find the "z=" value. This is the zoom level. For this image, the zoom only goes to 10. On some views, you can get the zoom as high as 28 even though the browser control will only take you to a zoom level of 17 or so. The net is, a lot of the Google satellite images have more detail than the browser will show using the zoom control on the page. It depends on the quality of the image Google purchased. They purchase images from a lot of the same sources the military does. There are some images out there where you can literally see people sitting in chairs by their pool.
That's grabbed from local.live.com. You can make a basic URL like so:
http://local.live.com/?cp=lat~long&lvl=10lat and long are given as fractional degrees, and lvl is the zoom level.