zabadoh@ani.social to collapse of the old society@slrpnk.net · 8 days agoEnormous pile of discarded clothes in the (Chilean) Atacama desert is visible from spacewww.earth.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down11
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkEnormous pile of discarded clothes in the (Chilean) Atacama desert is visible from spacewww.earth.comzabadoh@ani.social to collapse of the old society@slrpnk.net · 8 days agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squarebisby@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·7 days agoMy house is visible from space. Most things are. That’s the whole point of Google earth. Seeing things from space isn’t really impressive. This is still wasteful and awful, but not because of the space bit
minus-squareChais@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·7 days agoThe higher resolution images, where you can actually make out your house, are taken from planes, not satellites.
minus-squareMrMakabar@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days ago That is a 30cm image taken by an Airbus satellite for commercial purposes. You can make out cars and so forth pretty well.
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·7 days agoYes and no: satellites with a resolution of ~1m/pixel exist, it’s just that they are military use & all we get to see is aerial photographs.
minus-squareMrMakabar@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 days agoYou can buy 30cm resolution satellite images from private companies today. Obviously the US government and some others will have even better ones. Just as prove: https://space-solutions.airbus.com/imagery/our-optical-and-radar-satellite-imagery/pleiades-neo/
minus-squareraspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoI’d believe you without proof, I just pulled an approximate number out of my recollection from like 10 years ago. :)
minus-squareTheatomictruth@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 days agoYeah, at this resolution just about every garbage dump on earth is visible from space.
My house is visible from space. Most things are. That’s the whole point of Google earth. Seeing things from space isn’t really impressive.
This is still wasteful and awful, but not because of the space bit
The higher resolution images, where you can actually make out your house, are taken from planes, not satellites.
That is a 30cm image taken by an Airbus satellite for commercial purposes. You can make out cars and so forth pretty well.
Yes and no: satellites with a resolution of ~1m/pixel exist, it’s just that they are military use & all we get to see is aerial photographs.
You can buy 30cm resolution satellite images from private companies today. Obviously the US government and some others will have even better ones.
Just as prove: https://space-solutions.airbus.com/imagery/our-optical-and-radar-satellite-imagery/pleiades-neo/
I’d believe you without proof, I just pulled an approximate number out of my recollection from like 10 years ago. :)
Yeah, at this resolution just about every garbage dump on earth is visible from space.