18 February 2016
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.
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