Good news for Google Earth gazers: Those images are about to get a whole lot sharper. A new satellite named GeoEye-1 will be lifted into low earth orbit on August 22, and will deliver peeps at double the sharpness of Google Earth’s typical 3-foot resolution. The bird, which is basically an ultra high-resolution digital camera with a huge telescope attached, will be able to deliver clear views of objects measuring just 20 inches across.
The satellite will be able to resolve even sharper images than that, down to 16 inches, but the government won’t let us see those pics for security reasons. We’re thinking it might be able to see even smaller objects, but they’re just not telling us. Even so, this resolution is fine enough to see the shapes of people, but maybe not sharp enough to read license plates. Hit continue to see an example of GeoEye-1’s .5-meter pics.
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