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It's Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.
Thanks for the page. Was very interesting to read!
Really useful article. Rare to read something that actually does a decent job explaining the background from someplace wanting to sell you something.
Very cool. Learned something new today. Thank you.