The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on january 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite.
Blue marble 2012 fisheye.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
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.
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It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
This story has however a happier ending in the newst blue marble the one showing africa.
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.
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A quick trip to google earth shows how a real blue marble would have looked like minus the clouds.
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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I can happily report it is the way it should ve been.
Composite image showing a variety of views of earth from space.
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.
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The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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