Dan Lopez is a technologist ar Urthecast, and his phone captures the promise of the satellite imagery company, which in turn operates two cameras on the ISS (International Space Station) which cost around 35 million USD to develop. Today, the first full-color video of earth taken from space, in HD has been taken (besides military and spy satellites which have had this capability for a while).

The videos show three cities at a resolution which makes everything more than 1 meter large visible.



 

Source: Qz.com