Something that I found while browsing online:
According to Flickr, “The western hemisphere Blue Marble 2012
image has rocketed up to over 3.1 million views making it one of the all time most viewed images on the site after only one week”.
Here is the link for what it seem to be the highest resolution image of earth.
A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth 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: www.nasa.gov/npp
Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
Yair HaimWedding and Portrait Photographer
Photo courtesy of NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring