Where does google earth get its street views from?

There's actually a car they drive around with a camera mounted on top that takes a 360 shot of the area they want to create the street-view panorama. They use multiple cars all sponsored by Google. Here's a picture taken of one of the cameras on top of the car.



http://boingboing.net/images/524219311_2鈥?/a>

Where does google earth get its street views from?
it gets its street views from satellites taking pictures in spaceWhere does google earth get its street views from?
idk. been curious about that myself.