Obama’s inauguration has been covered at tremendous length elsewhere, but it would seem a tad churlish if I neglected it entirely. Here are two images of the proceedings taken by the GeoEye-1 satellite at around 11am EDT yesterday from a height of 423 miles. Click to enlarge.
Amazing.
From Wikipedia: “At the time of its launch, GeoEye-1 was the world’s highest resolution commercial earth-imaging satellite… Google, which has its logo on the side of the rocket, has exclusive online mapping use of its data. While GeoEye-1 is capable of imagery with details the size of 41 centimetres (16 in), that resolution will only be available to the government.”
What’s that in the top left of the first photo? It looks like a satellite but it can’t be.
I’m guessing it’s some kind of jetty or landing pier for boats.
I’d love to see a time-lapse film from that view.
If you squint at the second one it looks like a giant martian head. Just sayin’.
That’s a lot of brown hair.
The National Blonde Convention is next week. Actually, I suspect all hair will look brown in vast crowds at that distance. I mean, just about everyone appears to be *wearing* brown too, which is rather unlikely.
The object in the top left of the first photo is a paddle boat pier in the Tidal Basin by the Jefferson Memorial.