A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp.
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Playing around with earth viewer i think that blue marble 2012 resembles a picture produced by earth viewer s model from around 2 000 2 500km altitude.
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The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
I say mosaic because i doubt the satellite is equipped with a fish eye lens as the comment claims.
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This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
Then pause for a moment and consider that tens of thousands of similar recycled glass blue marbles are passing from hand to hand right now making their way around the earth our big blue marble.
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It is as if you are viewing this part of earth s surface through ultra wide lens.
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This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites.
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Suomi npp orbits the earth about 14 times each day and observes nearly the entire surface.
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Amazing high definition image of earth.
Fifteen orbits of the recently launched suomi npp satellite provided the viirs instrument enough time and longitude to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of earth showing the arctic europe and asia.
I assume that something similar is happening with blue marble 2012 too.