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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.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 12 2019, @12:57PM (4 children)
When will people learn to buy seven belt loop jeans so everybody doesn't have to see their crack?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Friday July 12 2019, @01:23PM (3 children)
Because then you would not have the pleasure of seeing it being filled with mud(*)?
(*) as a result of liquefaction, of course.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:18PM (1 child)
The more likely reason is liquefecation, methinks
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @02:50PM
geological santorum
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 12 2019, @07:58PM
I always enjoy dropping a screwdriver or the like down it when a coworker makes thiis mistake. It both amuses and informs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Booga1 on Friday July 12 2019, @02:34PM (2 children)
Moving forward, seeing articles where "It's visible from space!" is the headline will be far less interesting. The best spy satellites they're willing to tell us about have the ability to resolve images as fine as four inches, so my reaction is "of course it's visible from space!"
Maybe it would be more impressive if they could quantify it as "Visible with the naked eye from space."
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:47PM (1 child)
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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 12 2019, @04:29PM
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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 12 2019, @03:58PM (2 children)
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)
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
Southwest America