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This story has however a happier ending in the newst blue marble the one showing africa.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
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.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.
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This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
I can happily report it is the way it should ve been.
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Nice to see somebody at nasa still interested in the real world.
The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on january 23 2012 by the suomi national polar orbiting partnership satellite.
A quick trip to google earth shows how a real blue marble would have looked like minus the clouds.
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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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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