
A Blue Marble image of the Earth taken from the
VIIRS instrument aboard
NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi
NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on Jan. 4, 2012. The
NPP satellite was renamed Suomi
NPP on Jan. 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. (
Text from
NASA)
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