Google Gets New Satellite Imagery Of Beijing Air Pollution, North Korea Nuclear Site

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Google this week obtained new satellite imagery of two areas of interest in East Asia — Beijing, China, on January 11, one day of several recently during which the metropolis experienced record high levels of air pollution; and, from January 29, new imagery of a North Korean nuclear test site. Both new satellite image sets came from the company DigitalGlobe and Google has made them available as downloadable Google Earth files. 

Check out the new Google/DigitalGlobe satellite imagery of Beijing’s air pollution below: 

And here’s the imagery of the North Korean nuclear test site:

 

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