SF skyline satellite pic
A view of the Financial District and surrounding areas from space:
[San Francisco] is also argueably (sic) one of the most beautiful cities in the United States, sitting right on the San Francisco Bay. The city’s climate is moderated by its closeness to the Pacific Ocean, and the relative warmth of the Pacific air that flows toward the city over the cold water currents near the coastline is resposible for the city’s famous fogs. The city is bounded on the east by the rocky and forested hills of the Coast Range Mountains.
There was no such fog on August 28, 2004, when the IKONOS satellite took this unusual oblique-angle image of the city’s financial district. By aiming its sensors off nadir, IKONOS was able to capture a sense of the city’s tall skyscrapers: a unique perspective on a unique city.
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