While Google Earth images are updated fairly regularly for areas of rapid building (neighborhoods) from USGS images to help aid census information, images of rugged mountain terrain might be years out of date unless those who own the satellites and planes searching for Fosset are feeding the information directly to Google Earth.

Unlikely.

Flying over mountainous desert terrain at night is eary. Unless the moon is bright, it's extremely dark. With NVGs, it's highly unlikely Fosset would have been able to even see the desert terrain, much less select a suitable landing site.

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If I set the budget, we'd have Ares and more. Unfortunately, I don't set the budget, and Ares is just too expensive and too far out for us to accomplish our goals within the budget we were given.

If we halt the ISS, all versions of Ares, and transport Orion and Altair aboard DIRECTv3's Jupiter family of Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicles, we just might make it back to the Moon by 2020.