AJ is correct here. What you are seeing is the result of motion blur as both the satellite and the aircraft are in motion relative to the ground (the desired target of the photo). Those pretty pictures you see in Google Earth and elsewhere are the result of red, green, and blue filtered images combined into what is called a "Multispectral" image (MSI), named because it combines images taken over different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum together into a single image. Usually, the color filtered bands are lower resolution (think 1-2 meters GSD, ground sample distance, which is the distance between two adjacent pixel centers), and ground coordinates are provided by a sub-meter resolution greyscale (0 being complete darkness to 255 being totally white) or "panchromatic" image (PAN). The PAN provides the coordinates and relative intensity info (contrast). Add in elevation handling (usual a Digital Elevation Model or DEM from USGS if you're in the US), orthorectification (adjusting the image to look flat even though Earth isn't), projection (Earth is round, trying to put a section of it into a square instead of a curve introduces errors), and interpolation (due to differences in resolution between the PAN and the MSI to make the final image), and you've got your final product. To really blow your mind, we also have to account for nadir and sensor angle (satellite isn't pointed straight down, camera is at an angle as is the Sun relative to the Earth).

Source: 3+ years of Geospatial imaging software experience w/ RemoteView (Textron Systems tool) and DigitalGlobe, 4 years of college math (pretty much every undergrad college calc course).