Google recently hitched a ride up to space with the GeoEye-1, the new imagery satellite built by the company GeoEye.
Today, the company sent us a picture (above) that the new satellite
snapped of the Google’s Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
While you may look at the Google Maps view of the Googleplex
and think this image isn’t much better, I’m told that it’s because what
you see on Google Maps is a combination ariel imagery with satellite
imagery. This image is all satellite — as in hundred of miles up in the
air — as in, in space.
From that perspective, this looks really good. The picture is a 50
cm image, which is the maximum resolution Google is allowed to use,
because a certain large entity called the U.S. government is also using
the GeoEye-1 for national security purproses.
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