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NASA Releases The Highest Resolution Photo Ever Taken Of Earth!

This is a discussion on NASA Releases The Highest Resolution Photo Ever Taken Of Earth! within the Open Talk forums, part of the General Information category; Every year since 1972 NASA has released a photo of Earth taken from space called “Blue Marble”. For this years ...
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NASA Releases The Highest Resolution Photo Ever Taken Of Earth! - 01-26-2012, 10:45 AM

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Every year since 1972 NASA has released a photo of Earth taken from space called “Blue Marble”. For this years edition NASA decided to raise the bar a little. They used a new satellite that was launched into orbit on October 28th, 2011. The satellite, named Suomi NPP, captured numerous photos of Earth taken this January 4th for use in a composite photo. The resulting image is a 64 Megapixel masterpiece that trumps any previous “Blue Marble” photo in resolution. Below is the image along with a link to the much larger sized version on Flickr.
All sizes | Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth - Blue Marble 2012 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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01-26-2012, 11:57 AM

That's very cool. I bet they have several photos of the globe in different positions.

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01-26-2012, 04:49 PM

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01-26-2012, 05:01 PM

I found my new Desktop Screen...Thank You...!!!
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01-26-2012, 06:22 PM

I wonder how long it took to stitch the photos!

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01-26-2012, 06:40 PM

Oh cool, it's like a map but you can't even see the borders between countries....

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01-26-2012, 06:47 PM

That's awesome! Is that 64 megs?

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