How close are satellites to the spacecraft that took these photos? Well, it's about a million miles from Earth, generally the farthest satellites away from Earth are at about 40,000km altitude in geostationary orbit, which would put them maybe 4% closer to the spacecraft than Earth, so it wouldn't affect perspective hardly at all.
So that leaves resolution and physical size.
How big are satellites? About the size of cars or maybe a bus?
> it's about a million miles from Earth, generally the farthest satellites away from Earth are at about 40,000km altitude in geostationary orbit, which would put them maybe 4% closer to the spacecraft than Earth
No, that puts satellites in geostationary orbit 2.5% as close to Earth as the satellite that took this picture (in other words, it is 40 times as far away from Earth).
So that leaves resolution and physical size.
How big are satellites? About the size of cars or maybe a bus?
Can you see cars in this picture?