Impossible Image - How is this created?

Need some help with the attached Image. I lived in Aurich Germany for about six months. I drove by the Enercon Wind turbine factory every day and visited friends in the industrial park. This image has two ovals. The " R&D headquarters" was constructed before I got there which would have been in late 2013-2014.  I arrived in September of 2014. It is a very long and modern 3-4 story office building. Also in the fall the EEG building broke ground (the other circle). That building was finished in July of 2015. I have images of the main office building and the EEG under construction.


My question is, how is this image possible? There is no way the EEG building was constructed before the R&D headquarters building. Is this common in Google Earth?  

Andy

The most common explanation for anomalies like you are describing is a splice between images of two different dates. There is an obvious image splice about a half mile east of the site you are referencing, but sometimes they are difficult to detect. The Historical Imagery for this area is very sparse, and there is not even any Street View, which sometimes can be helpful in solving such a mystery.



It really helps in a post like yours if you provide a placemark (or even some other kind of .kmz file which defines exactly what you are looking at). It took me a while to find your location, so I'm attaching a placemark so other folks can more easily take a crack at trying to explain what we see.



(If you don't know how to use the tools for making placemarks, etc., there are good how-to guides in the top forum of the Home page.)

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