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

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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) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:58PM (#866278)

    I recall last year they were driving storms onto land with ionic heaters to ravage the southwest. They are probably messing with the underground "weather" now too.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 12 2019, @04:24PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 12 2019, @04:24PM (#866294) Journal

    You mean southwest Asia? Or, southwest Africa? Probably not southwest South America, or you would have just said Brazil. You gotta be more specific.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @05:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @05:43PM (#866331)

      Southwest America