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Surface Rupture From Ridgecrest Earthquake Spotted From Space

posted by Fnord666 on Friday July 12 2019, @12:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the eye-in-the-sky dept.

upstart writes:

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Surface Rupture from Ridgecrest Earthquake Spotted from Space (Photo)

One of last week's powerful Southern California earthquakes created a crack in the planet's crust that's visible from space.

Photos snapped on Saturday (July 6) by tiny Earth-observing Dove satellites, which are built and operated by San Francisco-based company Planet, show a new surface rupture near the desert town of Ridgecrest, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles.

[...] Planet's Dove cubesats are tiny but extremely capable: Their bodies are smaller than a loaf of bread, but the craft can capture photos with a resolution of 10 feet to 16.5 feet (3 to 5 meters). Planet (previously known as Planet Labs) currently has more than 100 operational Doves in low-Earth orbit, whose imagery the company sells to a variety of customers.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:50PM (#866244)

    geological santorum

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