RE: How come we cant get a direct shot of the north and south poles on google?

I don't know why but most ellyptical orbits of satellite, don't goes to poles, all stay in 80 -80 in latitude, and often even low -76 +76 degrees. probably only some wather satellite have interest in going to that latitudes, not the telecommunication or spy satellite, as, near the poles, there is nothing interesting for them, no population to send tv programs, or to spy.... as poles are desolated lands... and i think for the same reason, also satellites, that do immagery, no real interest for that part of the earth. Probably there are the GPS satellite that pass over poles, but i don't think that they have photographic capabilites.