00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 In 2014, a company called Digital Globe launched what was then the sharpest-eyed satellite of all time.
00:09 WorldView 3 is a high-resolution imaging satellite that can resolve features as small as one foot across.
00:15 Its instruments allow it to peer through fog and smoke to see Earth's surface at a level of detail
00:19 that was unprecedented for a non-governmental spacecraft.
00:22 WorldView 3 lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket
00:26 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been keeping an eye on Earth ever since.
00:31 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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