Bookmark This! January 31, 2008 posted by Red

Super Zoom – you want to see just how close satellite images can get…?

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Super Zoom. Looks like those satellite images from space are coming closer, apparently equivalent to looking out of a 10 story window. I swear I can see a guy picking his nose near HMS Belfast. Yikes. Be prepared for some scary stuff coming down the pipe in the future.

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Rich

These are aerial photographs, not satellite photographs. The aircraft’s only a few hundred metres up, rather than a few thousand kilometres like a satellite.

So not quite as scary, don’t worry!
Red

Rich, phew! :-)
http://www.gl0rify.com Stef

Satellite images will also suffer from atmospheric distortion – in the same way that we see stars twinkle – so aerial photo will be superior for some time still.