Amazing high def image of the Earth

[Aakash Bhowmick]

Have a look : http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/sizes/o/ :)

Aakash S. Bhowmick,
Undergraduate Student,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, W.B. - 721302.

 

[Aakash Bhowmick]

After the success of the last image ( the last image got some 3.2 million views! ) , NASA has released another image of the eastern hemisphere : http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/02/03/nasa-the-eastern-hemisphere/ . The full size image [ 11,500px x 11,500px !] can be downloaded from here : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5550711/6806922559_8f01d2f8a3_o.jpg. Interestingly, major portions of India are visible too in this image.

This time, they've also explained here how these huge image are taken : http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6803619953/

Aakash S. Bhowmick,
Undergraduate Student,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur, W.B. - 721302.

 

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Rishi Deepak <rishid...@gmail.com> wrote:

It is taken by VIIRS instrument(visible/infrared imager radiometer suite) aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2159.html

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