Mexico City’s Colorful Tianguis
On market days tianguis, scattered informal markets selling everything from chorizo to g-strings, fill the streets of Mexico City. Vendors cover their stalls with colorful tarps—often red—that can be seen from space. The largest tianguis can stretch for dozens of blocks — the market in the image below extends several kilometers.
Each neighborhood holds its market on a different day of the week. Planet Labs’ rapid revisit time allows our satellites to capture these transitory bazaars as they shift across the city.
The images above were collected on Wednesday, February 17 and Monday, February 22 by two Dove satellites, featuring our latest PlanetScope2 telescope & camera. They show markets scattered across Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, a district on the eastern side of Mexico City. Later this year—when our full constellation is in orbit—our satellites will collect imagery of nearly the entire land surface of the Earth, every day. Drinking from the firehose, indeed.
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