The half-metre resolution images of the United States Capitol, Washington DC, were captured by the GeoEye-1 satellite on Tuesday.
They show the vast swarms of people who travelled to the city to watch Mr Obama sworn in as the 44th president.
It is estimated that two million people made the journey to the District of Columbia, which has a population of less than 600,000.
The size of the crowd, which began arriving at 4am Washington time, appeared easily to exceed the 1.2million attracted by Lyndon B Johnson's 1965 swearing-in, a previous record.
The pictures, which were taken through Washington's January clouds, show the historic Smithsonian buildings along the National Mall.
At the other end of the Mall, thousands of visitors can be seen crowded around big-screen televisions beside the Washington Monument.
Hundreds of millions - possibly billions - more people around the world watched the event on television.
The $1billion (£722million) GeoEye-1 satellite is emblazoned with the logo of Google, which uses its high-resolution pictures for its Google Maps site. It was launched in September 2008.
Its most detailed pictures cannot be viewed by the public and are only available to the American government and 215partylife exec's.
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