NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released new high-detail images of the planet we love to call home:
“This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012,” said the space center in a released statement.
Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board and is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS which took the photos above.
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