Blue Marble 2012 Fish Eye

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Blue marble 2012 fish eye.

If you get one give one. Unknow maker blue ribbon core cat s eye toy marble mint large 1 150 shooter. Fifteen orbits of the recently launched suomi npp satellite provided the viirs instrument enough time and longitude to gather the pixels for this synthesized view of earth showing the arctic europe and asia. Then pause for a moment and consider that tens of thousands of similar recycled glass blue marbles are passing from hand to hand right now making their way around the earth our big blue marble.

It is as if you are viewing this part of earth s surface through ultra wide lens. Unknow maker multi color core cat s eye toy marble near mint size 625. Night lights 2012 the black marble. Published december 6 2012.

5 out of 5 stars 19 359 19 359 reviews 1 00. From shop thesawyerstore. A blue marble image of the earth taken from the viirs instrument aboard nasa s most recently launched earth observing satellite suomi npp. I say mosaic because i doubt the satellite is equipped with a fish eye lens as the comment claims.

Night lights imagery by noaa s earth observation group privacy policy. The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e. Favorite add to blue cat eye baked marble necklace and earring set thesawyerstore. Rare size white cat s eye toy marble size 853 large shooter very near mint.

Suomi npp orbits the earth about 14 times each day and observes nearly the entire surface. Amazing high definition image of earth. I assume that something similar is happening with blue marble 2012 too. Set of 2 pink blue marble cat eye plastic button dill buttons brand 2 sizes to choose silkfabric.

Playing around with earth viewer i think that blue marble 2012 resembles a picture produced by earth viewer s model from around 2 000 2 500km altitude. This animated globe shows the city lights of the world as they appeared to the new suomi npp satellite which has at least 10 times better light resolving power than previous night viewing satellites. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012. The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.