Where in the World? Week 21, 2020
Our satellite imagery brain teasers continue! What well-known location, feature or landmark on Earth are we looking at this week? Check back next week when we will reveal the answer and see if you guessed correctly. The answer to the previous challenge is at the bottom of this page. Ready? Steady? Here we go…
Answer to the previous challenge: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, which is the world's largest operational space launch facility - Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) and Vostok 1 (the first human spaceflight) were launched from here. The image was captured by the high spatial resolution SkySat satellites that provide sub-metre spatial resolution optical imagery.