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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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