Satellite imagery

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Society

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Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Satellite imagery”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.