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| A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth Credit: NASA |
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'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 January 4, 2012.
The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late
Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin.
Suomi
NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new
generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth.
Suomi
NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important
instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.
Image
Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
This Article was published on: NASA nasa.gov
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