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28 March 2012
A New NASA Blue Marble from Suomi NPP
The VIIRS ( Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) sensor on NPP has made a new NASA Blue Marble image. The pic was made in January and shows just how colorful our planet is. The other views are below and I apologize in advance for being North America-centric. Want to see the Earth in full resolution go here, but you had better have a FAST connection. More of the images …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.