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Making Blue Marble Images of Earth
February 7, 2012 | NASA

NASA has a short article that summarizes how the “Blue Marble” images of earth were created from satellite data. “The new image is a composite of six separate orbits taken on January 23, 2012 by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite.” Quoted from the NASA article.


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