high definition image of Earth

[tuqqer]

NASA has proclaimed this image the most amazing high definition image of Earth ever. (it’s 8000px x 8000px and 16.4mb).

Link to full rez image:
http://npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/VIIRS_4Jan2012.jpg


This ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth was 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. To read more about NASA’s Suomi NPP go to: npp.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html

[3d]

WOW. Stunning. THanks for the link.
Is there a hi def image like this for the moon?

[DaviDC.]

I saw this on the evening news last night but forgot to look it up. Thanks!
Like the man said, there are red or blue states when viewed from this distance.

[hal]

option-click that link and view it in a photo app

here's a small piece of it - can you see me waving?

[DaviDC.]

I'd be able to see my neighborhood if not for the clouds!
I didn't realize there were so many islands in the Gulf of California.

[JPK]

That is cool, but it needs to be centered on Chicago! I thought even NASA knew that the world revolves around Chicago!

If it was a little more centered on the USA, I would run the file right over to Costco and get a big old poster print for my office.

Is there someone in Houston or Cape Canaveral I can call to get that handled?

JPK

[DP]

I thought the Central Valley should be all green...

[Acer]

I see the neighbor left his dog in my yard again.

[Lew Zealand]

Fake - no stars.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I can alllllmost see my house.