The Google satellite takes your picture from space

That’s right. Google could be taking your picture right now and from a cool distance of 423 miles away. And that’s not in the next city over, that’s above you.

The picture above was taken with Googles new satellite that is orbiting our planet at 423 miles above the earth. That’s right, they are getting that amazing picture clarity even at 423 miles distance.

“…The spacecraft can take photos at a resolution of up to 41 cm — close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond, according to Mark Brender, GeoEye’s vice president of communications and marketing.

…This is the opposite of a spy satellite,” Brender said in a phone interview. “Spies don’t put info on the internet and sell imagery. We’re an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground.”

It might very well be the opposite of a spy satellite, but it still bothers me somehow.

Man how the world is changing, it’s both amazing and unbelievable at the same time. Check out more details on the new Google satellite over at Wired.