Before-and-after screenshots of the Presidential Palace and an area of Port-au-Prince. Credit: Google, GeoEye
[/caption]
The folks at Google Earth and the satellite imaging company GeoEye have teamed up to make available the most recent Haiti photos — taken at approximately 10:27am EST on January 13, 2010. It is available as a KML overlay for Google Earth, and you can download the KML here and open it in Google Earth. You can also open the file in Google Maps. As you’ll see, the imagery shows a powerful glimpse into the destruction in Haiti. Above are before-and-after screenshots of the Presidential Palace and an area of Port-au-Prince.
Google said they will continue to automatically update the layer (you’ll only need to download it once) to make more imagery and data available.
If you don’t have Google Earth (what!) you can go to this page and see the images in an embedded KML viewer.
Google also has a listing of how you can help the relief efforts in Haiti.
Source: Google Lat Long Blog
In a new study, a team of astronomers come to the conclusion that Proxima b…
Using new simulation suite, a team of scientists were able to conduct the largest set…
The iconic Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico has been at the forefront of…
Star formation is a complex process. But in simple terms, a star forms due to…
As originally planned, Juno’s 37th close pass by Jupiter – called Perijove 37 – would…
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You should…