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NPP's 'Blue Marble' - Eastern Hemisphere

NPP’s ‘Blue Marble’ – Eastern Hemisphere image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS. Although  instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite.

The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer. Therefore the Suite or VIIRS is the primary imaging instrument onboard NPP. Therefore and it acquires data in 22 spectral bands covering visible, near-infrared, and thermal infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. NPP’s ‘Blue Marble’ – Eastern Hemisphere.

The Eastern, Western, and Australian views were created by NASA scientist Norman Kuring. Also They are composite images using a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The Arctic composite was collected on May 26, 2012 from the OceanColor group at Goddard/NASA.

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