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NASA's amazing high definition image of Earth
NASA have released a 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard their most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin.
Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.
Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.
Download the full size 16.4 MB 8000 x 8000 pixel image
Image Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/618486main_earth_full.jpg
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Thanks to Peter Gülzow DB2OS for spotting this item
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