New NASA Satellite Captures Amazing Hi-Res Image Of Earth

This stunningly beautiful image of our planet was pieced together from a number of photos taken by NASA’s new Suomi NPP satellite on January 4, 2012, and is available  in a super high resolution 8,000 x, 8,000 pixels. The image is being called “Blue Marble 2012″ – a nod to the original ”Blue Marble” image taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 on Dec, 7, 1972.

You can check out the full size version here.

(NPP, via NASA IOTD via DVICE)

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