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I believe that what you are missing is the distance between the satellite and the plane. planes are at ~10,000 m altitude, GPS flies at 20,000,000 m altitude. A
by aspanu 12y ago
I believe that what you are missing is the distance between the satellite and the plane. planes are at ~10,000 m altitude, GPS flies at 20,000,000 m altitude. A very small angle of distortion creates a very large distance at the plane.
- zizzer 12y agoJust a note - It's not GPS satellites taking the pictures. It seems to be the RapidEye [1] satellites, which are much closer to earth at 630km. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidEye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidEye