we saw that...

this satellite photo of the u.s. capitol and national mall area, was taken at 10:19 a.m. cst, [utc-0600] tuesday, 20 january 2009, exactly 46 minutes before barack obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the united states of america.

those google earth users who wish to view this photo through google earth, can get the kml code to open in google earth from the google lat long blog here.