GeoEye's new GeoEye-1 satellite captured Tuesday's inauguration of President Obama from way above. The GeoEye-1 Earth imaging satellite had the chance to shoot an image of the event while it passed over Washington D.C. 423 miles above the city in space. When it shot the image, the satellite was hurtling along at four miles per second. It shows the vast swarms of people who traveled to the city to watch Mr. Obama sworn in as the 44th president.

It is estimated that two million people made the journey to the District of Columbia, which has a population of less than 600,000.

This is the same satellite that supplies Google with images for Google Maps and Google Earth, so we may see this image show up there one day as well. All those clumps of people in between the Washington Monument and the Capitol are clustered around Jumbotron screens.

A gallery of inauguration images is available on GeoEye's site, each image being offered as a high resolution download. All of them are definitely historical images, showing the massive crowds that filled the National Mall.

GeoEye provides 253 million square kilometers of satellite map images to Microsoft and Yahoo! search engines. Google has exclusive online mapping use of the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The 4,300-pound satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 6, 2008.