{"id":139865,"date":"2022-05-27T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ukraines-crisis-8-new-satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation-on-the-ground"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:22:53","slug":"ukraines-crisis-8-new-satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ukraines-crisis-8-new-satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation-on-the-ground","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s crisis: 8 new satellite images reveal the devastation on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ukraines-crisis-8-new-satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation-on-the-ground.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>War feels \u2018a hundred times more irrational\u2019 when viewed from space.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite images taken from space have been vital in reporting on the war in Ukraine. They have even helped to debunk disinformation that has spread since the start of Russia\u2019s invasion in late February.<\/p>\n<p>While satellites \u2014 such as those <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation\">used by Maxar Technologies<\/a> to help document the war \u2014 are equipped with powerful cameras that can zoom into vast regions, it turns out the conflict is also visible to the naked eye from orbital space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re in space, you feel so far away at first,\u201d European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who recently returned from his 177-day stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS), told German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daserste.de\/information\/politik-weltgeschehen\/morgenmagazin\/berichte-und-interviews\/Matthias-Maurer-102.html\">broadcaster *ARD<\/a>*, as <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/astronaut-ukraine-war-see-from-space\">per *Futurism<\/a>*.<\/p>\n<p>But the invasion \u201cwas clearly visible to the naked eye from space,\u201d he explained, saying he could see it in the form of \u201chuge black columns of smoke over cities like Mariupol\\.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The astronaut, Matthias Maurer, saw huge black columns of smoke from the ISS and claimed that the war in Ukraine is clearly visible from space.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/ukraines-crisis-8-new-satellite-images-reveal-the-devastation-on-the-ground\">Continue reading \u201cUkraine\u2019s crisis: 8 new satellite images reveal the devastation on the ground\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War feels \u2018a hundred times more irrational\u2019 when viewed from space. Satellite images taken from space have been vital in reporting on the war in Ukraine. They have even helped to debunk disinformation that has spread since the start of Russia\u2019s invasion in late February. While satellites \u2014 such as those used by Maxar Technologies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}