Latest shot of the Earth from NASA

[michaelocana]

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Just want to share the latest Earth shot @Eastern Hemisphere

Date : February 2, 2012





Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular 'Blue Marble' released last week (January 25, 2012). www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001

The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite. Both of these new 'Blue Marble' images are images taken by a new instrument flying aboard Suomi NPP, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).

Compiled by NASA Goddard scientist Norman Kuring, this image has the perspective of a viewer looking down from 7,918 miles (about 12,742 kilometers) above the Earth's surface from a viewpoint of 10 degrees South by 45 degrees East. 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. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA and the Department of Defense.

Credit: NASA/NOAA

For more information about Suomi NPP go to: www.nasa.gov/npp


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Hi-Res view : http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7151/6...c59a1490_o.jpg


Source : Eastern Hemisphere - Blue Marble 2012 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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[JCDV]

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[munax]

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[jazooon]

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