1、A friend at Amazon, Werner Vogels, got in touch with DigitalGlobe, and the firm provided thousands of images.

2、These pictures of the search area are being provided by two firms that supply information to Google Earth: GeoEye and DigitalGlobe.

3、That looks set to change, though. DigitalGlobe launched its second satellite, WorldView-1, on September 18th, and will launch a third late next year.