Sats Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan

Katie Drummond

Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of oil tankers and supply trucks, some parked in a dry riverbed, waiting to cross the Torkham border pass into Afghanistan.

The images were snapped by satellites operated by DigitalGlobe. The company’s sats offer footage for NASA and the Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, along with Google Earth and Google Maps. (more on wired.com)