NASA's 'Most Amazing' High Def Image Of Earth So Far

[riverwalker]

'Blue Marble 2012': NASA's 'Most Amazing' High Def Image Of Earth So Far

Today the space agency unveiled what it's calling the "most amazing high definition image of Earth — Blue Marble 2012." This one was taken "from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite — Suomi NPP," NASA says, and is a "composite image [that] uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012.


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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/25/145843287/blue-marble-2012-nasas-most-amazing-high-def-image-of-earth-so-far

[Bicoastal]

1. Hey, look at the Florida peninsula!

You can see Newt's head from here!

[skypilot]

2. Wow.

I can see my house from here.

[NMDemDist2]

3. hope they take another in the spring or summer

it looks more like north Africa's desert than the US in that one....

[hlthe2b]

4. I never cease to be amazed, when I see these images of earth...

at how accurate those cartographers were able to be-- using the lowest tech methods-- in capturing the general contours of our earth's continents....

[DFW]

5. Pretty cool

But why show the other side of the world?

[aSpeckofDust]

6. Oh my, there is a fire breathing dragon over South America! And It's attacking Mexico! D: nt

[Bok_Tukalo]

7. "Hey, you can see the Cubs losing ..."

<OPE>

[Uncle Joe]

8. Beautiful and unnerving at the same time.

All the commonality, difference, bliss and pathos on this tiny ass blue marble floating around in a vast sea of black ink.

Thanks for the thread, riverwalker.

[NYC Liberal]

9. Know what's most striking about these photos? No big fat lines dividing everything up.

Compare:

[gateley]

10. Hardly any green. :-( Breathtaking, nonetheless. nt