The surface the satellite sees might be barren desert, the top of a building, or the leaves of trees.

而卫星所观测到的地表可能是贫瘠的沙漠，也可能是建筑物顶层，或者是树叶。

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The International Space Station is a large, inhabited Earth satellite that more than 15 nations are building in space.

国际空间站是由超过15个国家在太空组建的一颗大型载人地球卫星。

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Now countries like South Africa, Nigeria and Turkey are building their own satellite capabilities.

现在有些国家，如南非，尼日利亚，土耳其，也正在开发他们自己的卫星项目。

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They sold satellite dishes door-to-door in Colorado in the 1980s, building a satellite company called EchoStar.

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The president, Olusegun Obasanjo, wants to launch a second, for television and telephone communications, and hopes eventually to see Nigerian engineers building a satellite in Nigeria.

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We asked former detainees to draw the layout of the detention floor, and we asked them to point out on satellite imagery the exact building where they were detained and tortured.

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