Why the PYXIS innovation name and the turtle logo?
We see that fragile humanity, in its search for identity and survival, has emerged with the capacity to change the Earth. We have accepted the responsibility for keeping this Earth secure and safe. We believe that this stewardship can begin when we each have the unfettered power to survey and witness the Earth’s complexity, its beauty, its condition and its vulnerability. At the heart of our business is a mission to establish, build and commercialize a technology that will fundamentally enable all people to observe the Earth and its systems. Our vision is of a single medium upon which all spatial data can be referenced, discovered, viewed and transformed. “Our logo includes PYXIS the turtle surrounded by dancing images of prehistoric humanity on a swirling Earth. I want the application to enable those who want to be watchers or keepers of the Earth. The turtle named PYXIS conjures up Iroquois legends of the creation of the Earth as Turtle Island. The hexagon cells are the markings on h
