From this Twitter thread:

There was a geeky holy war on the Maps team. When Lars checked in the code to switch between maps and imagery, he called it “Satellite.” We were quickly informed that a significant % of the images were taken from airplanes — “Aerial Photography.” Our name was factually incorrect.

The story digs into the crazy process Google used to come up with an appropriate alternative to “Satellite” for Google Maps.

Fascinating.