A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day
Thanks to a small group of Silicon Valley’s satellite startups, we may never look at our planet again the same way.
Robinson Meyer | March 9, 2016
It’s not just that Terra Bella Avenue would be an unremarkable street in Silicon Valley. It would be an unremarkable street anywhere in suburban America. The gray-brick low rises could sit at an intersection in Edison, New Jersey, or Skokie, Illinois, real-estate attorneys or school-district administrators shuffling in and out every day, and nothing would seem out of the ordinary.
But inside one of these buildings, past the cubicles and office kitchen, is a space-grade clean room where a man and woman are dusting off a new satellite the size of a dorm-room fridge. They’re clad in white, and their workspace resembles at once an auto shop, a high-school robotics lab, and the kind of gleaming NASA warehouses you see on the Discovery Channel.
Source: https://terrabella.google.com/?s=about-us&c=about-tour |
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