What happens when a plane flies through a Google Maps satellite photo? TheAtlantic.com has the answer:

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See for yourself. Geekosystem.com notes that “the rainbow effect could have been caused by a satellite imaging process that consisted of “several colored exposures [taken] over a few seconds and then combined”; failing that, unicorn magic.”