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18 February 2016
How the VIIRS “Blue Marble” image came about
Norman Kuring created the 2012 ‘Blue Marble’ image, an incredibly detailed, true-color image of Earth that’s featured in a new series of U.S. Postal Service space-themed stamps. Here, he describes the creation of this composite image taken with a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface on January 4, 2012.
GeoSpace is a blog on Earth and space science, managed by AGU’s Public Information staff. The blog features posts by AGU writers and guest contributors on all sorts of relevant science topics, but with a focus on new research and geo and space sciences-related stories that are currently in the news.