2012 and Planet X News Blog

It seems that not only people on Earth were watching the Presidential Inauguration last Tuesday, but our orbiting Earth-watching satellites were also tuning in.  The article in this post includes a picture of the Capitol Mall in Washington DC, showing a view of the festivities from space.

GeoEye-1 Earth Imaging Satellite Captures Inaugural Celebration From Space 

by Staff Writers
Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 23, 2009

At 11:19 a.m. (EST) GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world’s highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration.

The image, taken through high, whispy white clouds over Washington D.C., shows the monuments along the National Mall and masses of people between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial. Among the many interesting features in the image are the clusters of people gathered around large jumbotron screens.

The image was taken by GeoEye’s newest satellite, GeoEye-1, as it moved from north to south along the eastern seaboard of the United States traveling at 17,000 mph or about four miles per second.

I hope that this one goes out to extraterrestrial communities.  It would be a much better introduction to Earth than a recording of Adolf Hitler announcing that the “games of the first Olympiad of the Thousand-Year Reich are open.”  (With apologies to Carl Sagan, the author of Contact.)

Catch you on the Backside, and Welcome, Mr. President!

Janice Manning
2012 and Planet X Bulletin