Latest GeoEye Satellite Imagery of Haiti Devastation Now Available on Google Earth

By Nancy Atkinson - January 14, 2010 09:43 AM UTC | Planetary Science

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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

Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, and through this program, she has the opportunity to share her passion of space and astronomy with children and adults through presentations and programs. Nancy's personal website is nancyatkinson.com