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Highest-Definition Image of Earth Ever


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January 25, 2012 By

NASA today released a new, high-resolution “Blue Marble” image of the Earth taken from NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite — Suomi NPP. This composite image is 8000 x 8000, and uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, 2012, according to NASA. For those of you on slower connections, it could take some time to download the 16.4MB file.

Suomi NPP carries five instruments on board, the biggest and most important of which is the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which took the photos used to make this high-resolution composite. 
 
Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
 


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Nancy Conner    |    Commented January 26, 2012

What an awesome sight!! It is absolutely amazing to see all the diversity and beauty of our world. I'm thankful for the technology that allows me to have a God's-eye view of one small part of His creation!

kafantaris    |    Commented January 26, 2012

Our earth is stunning, absolutely beautiful. Let us pause for a moment and look at these detailed images to appreciate the vast and dynamic treasure we have inherited. Surely we can find a way to solve our problems as the one people that we are. Surely we can get along enough to save our home, and the home of children and grandchildren.

coach fresh    |    Commented February 3, 2012

why are the continents so huge, is the ratio correct. if so, we really are just hanging in there.


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