#satellite-imagery

#satellite-imagery

If you want the best view of Earth's landmarks, you'll need a ticket to space. Some of the world's most jaw-dropping sites - both natural and man-made - only reveal their true scale and beauty when captured from 250 miles overhead. The International Space Station has snapped images of some of these landmarks, such as the Great Barrier Reef, the Pyramids at Giza, and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Photos show how incredible landmarks look both from the ground and from way, way above.

But in Alaska, a new island has popped up in just four decades. The two-square-mile (five sq km) landmass, known as Prow Knob, was once entirely surrounded by the deep ice of the Alsek Glacier. But NASA has revealed that the small mountain has now been entirely surrounded by water, cutting it off from the mainland. An image taken by the Landsat 8 satellite in August shows that the mountain has now lost all contact with the Alsek Glacier.

"Originally, you'd have a person look at pictures. And that only scales so far," Nathaniel Manning, co-founder and CEO of LGND, explained regarding traditional data analysis.

Satellite images reveal that Russia employed deceptive tactics at airbases, including using decoys and covering planes with tires to mislead Ukraine's targeting efforts.