Kinda makes you wonder how good spy satellites are huh? Who originally
thought of this technique? is the pentagon going to get ****y at NASA for
publicizing what's pretty much a software upgrade? or is this something
that's finally been declassified? No doubt you need a pretty clever bunch of
guys to run the orbiter correctly... Maybe not, and who knows if China's
orbiting beer cans with Kodak DISC cameras in them could benefit... but who
cares, those are damn cool! Have the Britts been calling to have images done
of where the beagle supposedly had landed? At that resolution, you could
practically watch a baseball game from space - or at least see the
runners...

Andy

"Jack Harrison" wrote in message
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Resolution of 50 cms per pixel for Mars! Excellent.

The highest resolution routinely available from NOAA satellites
orbiting Earth is 250 metres per pixel (Modis). It would be nice to
see pictures of Earth to resolution of 50 cms per pixel. Landsat?
But I can't find anything on internet.

All I want to do is check on some damaged tiles on the roof of my
house - very hard to see from the ground. A "Mars Orbiter" would be
ideal.

Jack