2024: A year in satellite images
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The OSINT team at Sky News uses satellite images, video and publicly available data to verify and investigate breaking stories. Whether helping inform out coverage of conflicts in the middle east, or showing the scale of damage caused by hurricanes and floods, satellite images have been an important resource throughout the year.
As 2024 comes to an end, we have compiled some of the most striking and informative examples seen this year. January: Earthquake hits Japan's Noto Peninsula. On 1 January, a magnitude 4.9 earthquake affected the Noto Peninsula in Japan.It killed more than 500 people, and cased substantial damage to buildings in the area.
February: First commercial mission to the moon lands. On 22 February, the first commercial mission to the moon landed. UN chief Antonio Guterres declares last 10 years a 'decade of deadly heat'. Smoking a single cigarette could take 20 minutes off life expectancy, new study says.
One of UK's oldest golf clubs fights for its future amid rising sea levels. Odysseus, a Nova-C lander owned by Intuitive Machines, was photographed by NASA on 24 February after its arrival to the moon's southern polar region. This was the first time that a private company has successfully sent a spacecraft to the moon.
March: Container ship hits Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. On 26 March, the container ship Dali hit Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse. This killed six maintenance workers. The cost of replacing the bridge has been estimated to be close to $2bn.
