At 35 000 feet high, can you see vehicles on the ground? If so, can you see them moving on the roads?

Question

I'm just curious.

Answer 1

No. You are over 6 miles up in the air!  Think about it, a car standing next to you looks big. A car disappearing into the distance on the motorway is maybe 1/2 a mile away and looks like a Dinky car. You would not see one 6 miles away.  

ps Charles, when flying from Luton to Dublin which is only a short hop you were probably flying much lower.

Answer 2

No.........even without clouds you would not be able to see any cars...

Answer 3

Measure out 6.5 miles on a map, and try to imagine whether you could see this at such a distance at ground level.

No.

Not without a fancy camera such as the satellites carry.

Answer 4

Not directly...but depending on the time of day you might see the sun reflecting off them, and you can clearly see headlights at night.

Answer 5

At 35,000 feet , That's all you should see is clouds.

Answer 6

Nah roads look like pieces of thread.

Answer 7

I don't know about 35,000ft but flying from Luton to Dublin I could see individual cars on the road. When I was probably at about 35,000ft over land, I was flying over Montana and the place is so sparsely populated that all I could see was beautiful mountains and other natural features. When the plane approached Seattle, I could definitely see vehicles but that was my destination, so I'd guess the plane was much lower, even when in the stack. On landing approach I was surprised to find that I could read the signs on the Interstate/expressway.