NPP Blue Marble
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- Visualizations by:
- Cheng Zhang
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Suomi NPP is the first of a new generation of NASA satellites that observe many facets of our changing Earth. Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. One of the significant instruments is the Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.
This visualization features a composite image captured by Suomi NPP’s VIIRS and portrays how our planet looked from space on October 14, 2015.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizers
- Cheng Zhang (USRA) [Lead]
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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