It is a function that became popular a lot years ago, especially when it was still a novelty, however, the satellite image of Google Maps, known as Google Earth, does not stop improving. These days, Google is implementing these images in high definition for Google Maps and Google Earth, so that we can get a glimpse of Earth in a wealth of detail that was previously unknown. Little by little, cartography and satellite services are improving, at the same pace as technology. This is how we will one day be able to see images from anywhere in the world with astonishing ease.
The company has reported throughout today that it has introduced new parts in its mosaic of the Earth and its surface, but this time with images taken in high resolution taken by Landsat 8, a satellite that was put into orbit by the USGS and NASA back in 2013. The reality is that the images it offers us are spectacular, in the header image we can see the before and after in the case of New York.
To produce these images we have used the same Google Earth API. Scientists have used it to improve images and thus study the impact of malaria or how the water level will rise in the next thirty years.
Thanks to the new satellite, these new images have over 700 trillion individual pixelsTo give us an idea, there are about 7.000 times more pixels in these images than stars in the Milky Way, or seventy times more pixels than the estimated number of galaxies in the Universe.
The update for all users will arrive in a staggered manner, Google is releasing these new images little by little so as not to saturate the system.
