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U.S.S.R., 1986
Imagery taken by the French satellite SPOT marked the first use of commercial
satellite imagery by a news organization (ABC News) to independently
confirm a major news story. This was significant because the Soviets were
denying that the nuclear accident at Chernobyl had taken place. Satellite
imagery, it was now clear, could show events and places in countries where
access to the news media was denied. This is a combined SPOT-Eosat image of
Chernobyl; the red dot is a thermal signature revealing the extreme heat of the
reactor meltdown.
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