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2nd February 2012

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unknownskywalker: Eastern Hemisphere - Blue Marble 2012 Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular ‘Blue Marble’ released last week (January 25, 2012). The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi NPP satellite. Both of these new ‘Blue Marble’ images were taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). This image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. The four vertical lines of ‘haze’ visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or ‘glint,’ that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe. Download full-size image (11500×11500px - 11.04 MB) →

unknownskywalker:

Eastern Hemisphere - Blue Marble 2012

Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular ‘Blue Marble’ released last week (January 25, 2012).

The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi NPP satellite. Both of these new ‘Blue Marble’ images were taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

This image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. The four vertical lines of ‘haze’ visible in this image shows the reflection of sunlight off the ocean, or ‘glint,’ that VIIRS captured as it orbited the globe.

Download full-size image (11500×11500px - 11.04 MB) →

Source: Flickr / gsfc

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