Even the distant “pretty view” of the earth we see when zoomed all the way out is stitched together from something like 700,000 separate Landsat images totaling about 800 billion pixels (check out this great overview video). Still, what’s going on beneath the hood and the sheer size of the numbers involved is jaw-dropping. We’ve become accustomed to being able to zoom in to meter-scale resolution just about anywhere on the planet from our phones. ![]() Over the last 15 years, our interaction with this stunning perspective of the Earth has become so routine that it might not seem so impressive. These top-down photographs come almost exclusively from satellites. ![]() Both Google Earth and Google Maps have incorporated basic two-dimensional imagery since they first launched in 2005.
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