Wednesday, July 22, 2015

new "blue marble" photo of Earth

NASA releases new "blue marble" photo of Earth

Earth, as seen on July 6 from a distance of 1 million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. NASA

New 'blue marble' picture delights - BBC News
"A new, full snapshot of our planet has been captured by a Nasa satellite.
Such images, wh
ich show the Earth in its entirety, are known as "Blue Marbles".
The latest of these was captured by the US DISCOVR earth observation satellite, which was launched in February this year."

Earth