Giant rats in SPAAAACE

[unwilly]

Rats have gone totally high tech.

Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. The technology replaces trapping and tedious airplane fly-overs as a means of taking census.Yep, it is too hard to go find giant rats and the huge areas they denude of

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[mycroftca]

Spy satellites are all in low Earth orbit, not in geosynchronous, and so they overfly everything except Antarctica, and even that, if the orbit is polar...

[unwilly]

My bad.

Still why not a US sat?

[mycroftca]

Most likely because US spy agencies don't want other nations to have any idea of how good their resolution is with the KeyHole satellites.