Proposed APOD: Obama Inauguration Satellite View

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keshlam
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Proposed APOD: Obama Inauguration Satellite View

Post by keshlam » Wed Jan 21, 2009 3:05 pm

At the risk of slashdotting their server ... this is just too good an image not to share. Satellite view of the inauguration crowd. My, that's a lot of surprisingly-well-behaved people!

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/ ... =220&gid=1

(OK, it isn't astronomy or earth science. But it's a good gut-level illustration of how useful commercial spaceflight can be, and how much satellite photography has advanced.)

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Re: Proposed APOD: Obama Inauguration Satellite View

Post by bystander » Wed Jan 21, 2009 4:47 pm

Great picture and suggestion!

Caption from GeoEye

This half-meter resolution image of the United States Capitol, Washington D.C. was collected by the GeoEye-1 satellite on Jan. 20, 2009 to commemorate the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken through high, whispy white clouds, shows the masses of people attending the Inaugural Celebration.

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