satellite images

Pictures from space

Satellite images are photographs of Earth taken from orbiting spacecraft.

Used for weather forecasting, mapping, military surveillance, and environmental monitoring, they range from broad continental views to detailed shots of individual buildings.

The satellite images showed the hurricane approaching the coast.

Google Earth popularized access to what was once restricted technology.

Opposites
altitude/vantage point

satellite imagesworm's-eye view

Viewpoint from ground level

street view · underwater photography

scope/scale

satellite imagesmacro photography

Magnified capture of miniature subjects

close-up photography · portraits · microphotography

technology/method

satellite imagesfilm photography

Image-making with celluloid

sketches · paintings · illustrations · eyewitness accounts

Family

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Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G