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New satellite gets INSANELY high-resolution picture of Earth

Mihai Andrei by Mihai Andrei
November 23, 2011
in Great Pics, Remote sensing
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Less than a month ago, on the 28th of October, the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite launched into low-Earth with the main purpose of observing our planet’s environment and climate, some 800 km above our planet. Here you can see one of its first pictures, and what a picture it is!

What’s that you say, not a big deal ? Well then please click the link, to see this picture in its entire zoomongous beauty (yeah, I know it’s not a word)! It shows the entire planet, from Canada to South America, but here’s a close-up version.

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But wait, we can zoom even more!

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This is another bittersweet reminder that even as NASA’s budget gets dramatically cut down, even amidst all the climate change skeptics, science moves on; and we need science to move on, it is impervious for our survival as a species.

Via Bad Astronomy

Tags: high resolutionplanetsatellite
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