Earth's Wonders Like You've Never Seen Them →
November 7, 2018 • #The team from Planet, maker of microsatellites for remote sensing, shared this set of images taken by their SkySat constellation. As this technology advances, it’s going be a phenomenal resource to make high-accuracy 3D models of cities and terrain.
I love browsing Google Earth and looking at massive elevation differentials and escarpments like Yosemite or like Auyán Tepui, the tabletop mountain best known for Angel Falls:
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