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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: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:47PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:47PM (#866274)

    The resolution to see a cigarette (4 inches) was publicly announced about 30 years ago. I'm sure it's good enough to see something as small as Hillary's micropecker by now.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 12 2019, @04:29PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 12 2019, @04:29PM (#866297) Journal

    I was thinking similar. Wayyyy back when I was in the Navy, they claimed that they could read a license plate from orbit. All the sat imagery that I got to see at that time was so grainy, you were lucky to identify a pickup from a sedan. Or, about the quality that Google Earth offers today, to civilians. The Intel communities can probably run facial and gait recognition from orbit.