A company that provides satellite imagery to Google Maps opened its platform to the crowd in order to aid the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.
Authorities are stumped by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 several days ago. As always, the Internet is lit up by discussion, speculation and amateur attempts to solve the mystery. But in a twist that marries proprietary information with crowdsourced investigations, one of the world's largest satellite imagery firms is asking the general public to track down clues about the missing aircraft.