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Satellite Easter Eggs

Posted by Zonk on from the hi-mom! dept.

TheChocolatay writes "Wired has a story on hidden finds in satellite images. They range from sporting events to natural disasters to bombs and firefights in Iraq. Some very interesting and cool pictures." From the article: "Part of it is that we collect so much imagery that a lot of times no eyes have seen a lot of this stuff,...And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine."

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  1. Re:Interesting, yet... by d_p · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 1996, the US Congress passed the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act. That law says that the US government may not license an American remote sensing company to collect or disseminate imagery of Israel at a better resolution than what is generally available from remote sensing companies in other countries, i.e. 2 meters.