They’re the sharpest commercially available radar shots of our planet.
Capella Space’s first fully operational satellite has snapped some breathtaking images of Earth during its first few months in orbit.
The Capella-2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite, previously known as Sequoia, launched atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster on Aug. 30. Because Capella-2 captures imagery using radio waves rather than visible light, the spacecraft can both peer through clouds and study swaths of our planet that are cloaked in darkness.