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To: scion who wrote (12189)8/31/2019 6:20:02 AM
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Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran

August 30, 20194:22 PM ET
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Geoff Brumfiel, photographed for NPR, 17 January 2019, in Washington DC.
GEOFF BRUMFIEL


A commercial satellite image from the company Maxar (bottom); the image tweeted by President Trump (top) appears to be of better quality.
(Bottom) Satellite image ©2019 Maxar Technologies; (top) @realDonaldTrump

Some of the highest-resolution imagery available commercially comes from the company Maxar, whose WorldView-2 satellite sports 46-centimeter resolution.

But the image shown in the president's tweet appears to be of far better quality, says Ankit Panda, an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, who specializes in analyzing satellite imagery. "The resolution is amazingly high," says Panda. "I would think it's probably below well below 20 centimeters, which is much higher than anything I've ever seen."

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